Peter Elbow was right about teaching writing

Peter Elbow's contributions to composition studies, particularly through his book 'Writing Without Teachers,' emphasized student freedom and agency in writing. Despite his significant influence, the extent of his transformative impact in writing classrooms is debatable. In 1994, the writer, who discovered Elbow's work later, reflected on the lack of introduction to his ideas in their training and expressed frustration with rigid teaching methods focused on rhetorical modes. Elbow's approach has shaped contemporary writing practices, though traditional methods persist in academia.

Anyone who teaches writing as a process, who uses peer review and reflection, is working from Elbow-ian DNA. This surely fits any definition of transformation, doesn't it?

Even as someone who has done his fair share of thinking and writing about teaching writing, I did not realize that his landmark book, Writing Without Teachers, was first published all the way back in 1973.

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