Silence and the Nontraditional Writer

Elaine Fredericksen

doi:10.58680/tetyc19983860

ISSN: 0098-6291
E-ISSN: 1943-2356

Silence and the Nontraditional Writer
Author(s): Elaine Fredericksen
Source: Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Volume 25, Issue 2, May 1998, p. 115 - 121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58680/tetyc19983860
- Published online: 01 May 1998

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Argues that nontraditional students need special assistance in coming to believe that they have something valuable to say and in learning to express it with authority. Discusses the complicated nature and causes of the silences of nontraditional students, and describes numerous things that can be done to lessen fear and resistance in the writing classroom.

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