Bad Ideas About Writing

• Main Authors: Ball, Cheryl E (Author), Loewe, Drew M (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: [Place of publication not identified] West Virginia University [2017]
• Series: Open textbook library.
• Subjects: Education > Textbooks; Education, Higher > Textbooks; Rhetoric > Textbooks
• Online Access: Access online version

We intend this work to be less a bestiary of bad ideas about writing than an effort to name bad ideas and suggest better ones. Some of those bad ideas are quite old, such as the archetype of the inspired genius author, the five-paragraph essay, or the abuse of adjunct writing teachers. Others are mu...