The Writer’s Practice

John Warner shares about his new book, The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing on episode 243 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Students came with so many preconceived notions of what an essay was.
—John Warner

The definition of a writer is simply somebody who writes.
—John Warner

There’s no reason not to trust students and their own experience of the world.
—John Warner

Resources Mentioned

• The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing, by John Warner*
• Episode 172: Values, Interdisciplinary Knowledge, and Pedagogy
• Episode 233: Why They Can’t Write
• Marlene M. Preston at Virginia Tech
• Clint Smith’s tweet about used books
• Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities, by John Warner*
• ‘Dreyer’s English’ Is for Everybody, by John Warner on Inside Higher Ed*
• The author you need to read now: Tressie McMillan Cottom, by John Warner
• Abebooks – used books