Writing the Blues: Teaching in a Post-Katrina Environment by Gwen Robinson

The writing I received in my first-semester composition class at Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana, the semester immediately following Hurricane Katrina was stunning with respect to both student commitment and narrative sophistication. In this essay, I analyze a representative example of this writing entitled “life During Katrina” by a student I have called “K.”…

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