| At this stage, students use the writing of others to inspire, model, and provoke their own writing. Reading provides substantive ideas and content, textual examples to emulate, common touchpoints for class discussion and brainstorming, and virtual conversation partners for students to interact with. Some academic writing assignments ask students directly to interact with others' texts; but even those that do not assume, in college, that students are learning to write better in part by learning to read better. |
