it's after deadline, but this is a response of sorts, not my original post. Two points I need to address (and most of us will probably hear me blather in class before they read this):
1. You've got it or you don't, We can't teach the next King, Shakespeare, or Grisham. I think this is bunk, the first part anyway. If you don't think we can teach writing, why are you in a writing pedagogy class? Just like to argue, or are you hoping against hope to be proved wrong? Social communication is learned behavior, so if learned it can be analyzed and taught. Can genius be externally implanted? Who knows. But we've all got that talented friend who never got his band out of the basement as well as the "slow tester" that became valedictorian through dedication and practice. It's one thing to have the tools, but you need to keep them sharp and use them.
2. Stories kick butt.
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