Review of Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World by Nancy Welch reviewed by William H. Thelin
Making writing meaningful for our students entails, to a great extent, finding a real audience for their ideas. Students, after all, instinctively know they are writing for their instructor, which often turns what should be audience-based decisions into gradebased decisions. The movement toward public writing seems to have considered this need, as real readers not…