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Teaching Writing*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2010

Ann Raimes
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With just the two words of the title “Teaching writing,” we are thrown into ambiguity characteristic of the enterprise the title names. Is that second word a participle, referring to the activity of generating, composing, and revising ideas on paper, or is it a more static gerund noun form—writing as an artifact, as text presented on a page, performing social functions? The position we take with regard to the multiple realities encompassed in this dichotomy and in others in our field gives shape to our teaching. And that shape is changing.

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Teaching The Language Skills
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 18 , March 1998 , pp. 142 - 167
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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