Is there copious weeping when you say, “Write an essay”?
Do your students get a pit in the bottom of their stomachs when faced with a writing assignment?
When I was a little girl (yes, this was a long, long time ago), I had the same reactions when I was told to clean my room. I shared a bedroom with my two sisters who were just as neat-challenged as I was, and blackness would always descend upon us as a truly physical weight when the edict came down to clean our room.
Why was it so gut-wrenching?
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