9: Reading is Not Essential to Writing Instruction, by Julie Myatt

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Reading is Not Essential to Writing Instruction" by Julie Myatt. It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Chapter keywords: close reading, metacognition, model texts, reading rhetorically, recursive reading, rhetorical genre studies, standardized testing

Julie Myatt is a Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, where she teaches undergraduate writing and literature courses and graduate courses in Rhetoric and Composition. Myatt currently serves as Director of MT Engage, MTSU's Quality Enhancement Plan, and has previously served as Co-Director of General Education English and Coordinator of Graduate Teaching Assistants in English. She is the immediate past Co-President of WPA Midsouth, an affiliate of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. Her publications also appear in the edited collections Composing Feminist Interventions and Failure Pedagogies.

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