February 21, 2010
Critique Your Critiques
One weekend last year, I gave a talk at a communications conference, had lunch with one of my former professors, and got flamed over e-mail—all in the course of 24 hours. It wasn't until a week later that I realized that a common thread ran through all three events.
My conference presentation was based on an encounter that I'd had with a writing student whose essays were full of what looked (to me, anyway) like ESL mistakes. When I asked my student when she'd started to learn
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