Title

Writing: First Problem Is Thinking

Authors

Annette Atkins, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 1982

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Curriculum and Instruction | Education | Higher Education | History | Social History | United States History

Abstract

Teaching fifteen first-year students in a yearlong “writing across the curriculum” United States social history course has led me to a series of discoveries about their thinking and writing abilities: Students only believe that they can speak better than they can write; virtually no student believes that he can write with skill; and trouble with thinking is prior to difficulties with writing.

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Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27565482

Recommended Citation

Atkins, Annette. “Writing: First Problem Is Thinking.” Improving College and University Teaching 30, no. 2 (Spring 1982): 52. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27565482.