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Root, Robert L., Jr. – English Journal, 1991
Explores the interrelationship of learning, language and literature. Suggests assignments that allow students to respond like readers rather than like apprentice critics. Asserts that writing is not merely recording, and reading is not merely decoding. States that confusions about meaning and syntax disappear when writers read their own work…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Literature, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship