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So the book is coming to be about writing, where writing pedagogy is today and where it should be, and how blogging (as an example of a powerful technology) can address some of the needs we have. While we know much more about teaching writing than we ever have, we also have new and ongoing needs we need to address: student motivation and interest, connecting intellectual understanding to lived experience, creating classroom community, allowing students space to take risks and write through uncertainty and learning, and many other things. This book takes from my experiences as a blogger for the last five years, and as a writing teacher who uses blogging to teach writing/write with her students. The good news is not only is this a book I really want to write, but there’s some interest in it, I’m getting good feedback from people, and things seem to be heading in the right direction.

That’s not to say I won’t get derailed — I’m trying to write this this summer while teaching three courses, but I feel good about the direction I’m going and the things I have to say.

So nobody better steal my idea ’cause hey — that’s mine… got it?

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