A New Setting
My English Oak Writing Desk will be two years old June 29.
It's in a new setting I'd hardly imagined when I first sat down to write at it on the farm. I've lost count of the hours of pleasure my desk has afforded, and the inspiration it continually nurtures for me.
What is Good Writing?
Good writing is good dialogue.
Middendorf, M 1992
To companion my desk, a new discovery has been Mikhail Bakhtin's The Dialogic Imagination, and its contribution to Dialogic, one branch of which is to discover the dialogic heart of written communication.
Good writing is good dialogue.
Context prevails over text.
op cit Middendorf 1992
Studying Texts
Recently, studying two texts: one, a business essay in a National Daily; the other, an essay in an Educational Journal, I balked at the absence of rhetoric, which made the writing serviceable, but distinctly inelegant to my ear.I readily allow Dialogic Theory that sanctions this, remembering, the greater bonus attains in
When students learn dialogizing as a habit of mind, more than their writing improves.
op cit Middendorf 1992
