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1 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Students don’t learn organization from doing five paragraph essays. It’s a myth. I promise you didn’t learn organization from doing 5PEs. I’d be happy to send you a copy of my book for free. jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/why-they…
There’s a far better way to help students to learn to think critically and write well. It’s all laid out as a curriculum in this book. amazon.com/Writers-Practi…
Here’s testimony from students who are using the writer’s practice. plthomasedd.medium.com/fyw-students-r…
And here’s the testimonies of how 8th graders were transformed as writers within a week’s time after using the writer’s practice. insidehighered.com/blogs/just-vis…

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John Warner Profile picture
1 Dec
Always psyched when a debate about the 5PE breaks out on here because it's an opportunity to air out the folklore around writing instruction and hopefully move towards a deeper understanding of the kinds of things students must experience to learn to think and write well.
As I say in my book on why we need to kill the 5PE, the problems are largely structural. There's good reasons to teach the 5PE. THAT's the problem. We need to eliminate the incentives for teaching the 5PE so students can engage with writing as it actually works.
There is a bonkers sale @JHUPress right now, including Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necsessities. Take advantage! jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/why-they…
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8 Nov
Ahhhh..ha...ha...ha...ha... the backpedaling begins.
Gordon Gee knows a thing or two about fundraising, and that's what that announcement for the IDWU was about. If he doesn't want to be subjected to this problem over and over again, he best back away completely.
It's actually interesting to consider who is not part of the IDWU announcement launch. Heying, but no Weinsteins? Where's Yascha Mounk? TCW? How did they decide on the invite list?
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8 Nov
Someone in my DMs expressed fair concerns about amplifying the nascent IDWU (University of Austin) with all the mocking and criticism, and I take that concern seriously, but in this case, I don't think it's a worry. Because...
1. It's going to be amplified a lot anyway. This isn't surfacing a fringe thing and putting it into the mainstream. 2. If it is going to be a real thing, it may as well be under scrutiny from the get go. They say they have funding and are collecting $'s. Let's air it out.
3. If the money being donated was instead going to go toward something like working against climate change, better to flush it down the tube with a phantom university run by malcontents and grifters. And...
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8 Nov
This entire FAQ reads like wishcasting, barely above the level of scratching out a plan for a new university on a napkin. uaustin.org/faq
The whole finances section is just like...huh? It seems like they're thinking that eschewing public money will save them administrative burdens and administrative costs, but is this not pure fantasyland?
I mean, I hope those libertarian think tank pockets are bottomless because turning your back on any federal money sounds like tough financial sledding.
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8 Nov
Please please please, I'm begging all cancel culture warriors to join the others at IDWU (also known as the University of Austin). Sink lots of money into this. I'm sure it will be well spent. uaustin.org
What's the over/under on the number of students enrolled in the residential liberal arts college by 2024? I'll take the under.
In all seriousness, WTF?
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7 Nov
I had planned to write a snarky newspaper column about the "LinkedIn for Books" and then thought, what if I'm wrong, and people want this? So instead, I aired out my uncertainty at The Biblioracle Recommends. biblioracle.substack.com/p/linkedin-for…
It's interesting to consider the difference in how I approach a column for the Tribune v. the newsletter. Essentially the same audience, or a distilled version of the audience for the column, but I write and sound rather different in the newsletter.
I'm enjoying the newsletter a lot, but I just don't know how much longer I can do it for free. Unfortunately, time is a zero sum game and it takes me a decent chunk of it every week. That's probably because I do enjoy it, though.
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