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"I have argued that learning to write really means more than just learning specific content, organizational and grammatical rules, rhetorical concepts, or writing processes — it means coming to attach to the self a set of writers' roles, negotiating and understanding of the self as someone who uses writing for personally and socially important purposes."
Robert Brooke, 140

History and Writing
an assignment shared by Matt Wildman

"When asked about what I teach I now tell people I am a history-turned-English teacher. Indeed, the content of history is the means to initiate students in the processes of reading and writing..."

Kids Make History
an assignment shared by Georgia Scurletis

"This assignment was meant to be a "comparison/contrast" essay, but I wanted to present the assignment in a more exciting way ­ to empower the students as researchers, observers, as recorders of history. ..."

Writing Without a Curriculum
an assignment shared by Catherine Hartnett

"For each theme or topic, the students were required to perform research and bring their findings to the class for discussion..."

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