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I examine the career trajectory and working practices of a good writer (@emilynussbaum) for intelligence on how we can help student writers become good at writing. insidehighered.com/blogs/just-vis…
I say in Why They Can't Write that we almost couldn't come up with a less efficacious system for helping students learn to write and the experiences of working writers reinforce this for me every single day.
Students should be practicing a much wider array of genres in school, but the trend has instead been increasing specialization, often driven my standards and accountability pressures and lack of resources and support for teachers to work with students individually.
Efficiency is fundamentally incompatible with learning to write. (I think it's fundamentally incompatible with learning in general, FWTW.) Students learning to write must be allowed to explore and fail and try again, doing so as part of a community in which their work matters.
Yeah, sure, I'll plug the books again. Why The Can't Write attempts to diagnose the systemic problems surrounding the teaching of writing. 40% off direct through @JHUPress with the code HHOL. jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/why-they… 
And here's The Writer's Practice. If students are given the time and space and community to explore these experiences, they will become better, more confident, constantly improving writers. amazon.com/Writers-Practi…
