The Writer’s Practice, with John Warner

John Warner shares about his new book, The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing on episode 243 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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Quotes from the episode

Students came with so many preconceived notions of what an essay was.
—John Warner

The definition of a writer is simply somebody who writes.
—John Warner

There’s no reason not to trust students and their own experience of the world.
—John Warner

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Resources Mentioned

• The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing, by John Warner*
• Episode 172: Values, Interdisciplinary Knowledge, and Pedagogy
• Episode 233: Why They Can’t Write
• Marlene M. Preston at Virginia Tech
• Clint Smith’s tweet about used books
• Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities, by John Warner*
• ‘Dreyer’s English’ Is for Everybody, by John Warner on Inside Higher Ed*
• The author you need to read now: Tressie McMillan Cottom, by John Warner
• Abebooks – used books

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