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Ball and Drew M. Loewe, it organizes chapters around myths about what good writing is, who good writers are, and which styles, genres, assessment practices, and digital technologies should guide teaching. Each chapter presents a named “bad idea” and addresses it through scholarship, helping educators and students improve writing knowledge, pedagogy, and outcomes.","BAD IDEAS ABOUT WRITING  \nEdited by Cheryl E . Ball & Drew M . Loewe  \nBAD IDEAS ABOUT WRITING  \nOPEN ACCESS TEXTBOOKS  \nOpen Access Textbooks is a project created through West Virginia University with the goal of producing cost-effective and high quality products that engage authors, faculty, and students. This project is supported by the Digital Publishing Institute and West Virginia University Libraries.  \nFor more free books or to inquire about publishing your own open-access book, visit our Open Access Textbooks website at [http://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu](http://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu).  \nBAD IDEAS ABOUT WRITING  \nEdited by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe  \nWest Virginia University Libraries Digital Publishing Institute Morgantown, WV  \nThe Digital Publishing Institute believes in making work as openly accessible as possible. Therefore, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license means you can re-use portions or all of this book in any way, as long as you cite the original in your re-use. You do not need to ask for permission to do so, although it is always kind to let the authors know of your re-use. To view a copy of this CC license, visit [http://creative](http://creative)[commons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or](commons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or) send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.  \nThis book was set in Helvetica Neue and Iowan Old Style and was first published in 2017 in the United States of America by WVU Libraries.  \nThe original cover image,“No Pressure Then,” is in the public domain, thanks to Pete, a Flickr Pro user.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data forthcoming  \nISBN-10: 0-9988820-0-3  \nISBN-13: 978-0-9988820-0-0  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nIntroduction  \nCheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe  \nBAD IDEAS ABOUT WHAT GOOD WRITING IS  \nRhetoric is Synonymous with Empty Speech Patricia Roberts-Miller  \nAmerica is Facing a Literacy Crisis Jacob Babb  \n1  \n7  \n13  \nFirst-Year Composition Prepares Students for Academic Writing 18  \nTyler Branson  \nFirst-Year Composition Should be Skipped Paul G. Cook  \nYou Can Learn to Write in General Elizabeth Wardle  \nWriting Knowledge Transfers Easily Ellen C. Carillo  \nReading and Writing are not Connected Ellen C. Carillo  \nReading is Not Essential to Writing Instruction Julie Myatt Barger  \nBAD IDEAS ABOUT WHO GOOD WRITERS ARE  \nWriters are Mythical, Magical, and Damaged Teri Holbrook and Melanie Hundley  \nYou Need My Credentials to be a Writer Ronald Clark Brooks  \nOnly Geniuses can be Writers Dustin Edwards and Enrique Paz  \n24  \n30  \n34  \n38  \n44  \n53  \n60  \n64  \nSome People are Just Born Good Writers Jill Parrott  \nFailure is Not an Option Allison D. Carr  \nThere is One Correct Way of Writing and Speaking Anjali Pattanayak  \nAfrican American Language is not Good English Jennifer M. Cunningham  \nOfficial American English is Best Steven Alvarez  \nWriter’s Block Just Happens to People Geoffrey V. 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