“Yeah, but What’s Writing For?”

Not my title, but that of a very readable article by Lisa Mendelman. She discovered after a year of teaching a writing class that, when allowing students to delve into their own interests and to write about issues important to them “the results were staggering”.

Ms. Mendelman determined her students discovered that the significance of writing is “the ability to connect people, to put us in another’s skin, to teach us what it means to be human.”

A great lesson for everyone!


Reference:
Teacher Magazine May/June 2007 p. 56