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“An Expert Writer Must First Become an Expert Reader”

February 22, 2008

I’ve been getting questions about the new, reading-heavy recommendations for undergraduate creative-writing instruction that I wrote about not long ago for the Chronicle (subscription required). The guidelines, put together by the AWP (The Association of Writers and Writing Programs), have now been posted on the group’s website as part of the 2008 AWP Director’s Handbook. More thoughts on this later.

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