In this frankly utopian essay, Robert Yagelski’s theme is the transformative power of writing as an act in and of itself. He makes us reevaluate our motivation and point for teaching writing in schools and asks us to consider an agenda that will quite frankly scare teachers as he explains why we need an ontology of writing.
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Robert P. Yagelski (2009) studied this question.
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