The key argument here is that vocabulary is the key to teaching composition as well as the standards of what college level writing should be defined by. She makes the distinction between teaching literature and teaching writing, but more importantly between teaching processes/practices and teaching terms. The article runs parallel between her discussion of the subject with what i am assuming to be a paper by a senior student (Brian M. Morrison) on blogs. Her argument, essentially, is that in teaching the specialized terms of the craft (composition), students will be better prepared to compose; writing is the content of a writing class.
I agree with this; as a math teacher, i don't students how to solve restaurant-tip problems; i teach them the concept of percents, decimals and fractions and then give them the practice and guidance to apply said concepts and skills to the problems at hand.
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