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“I’m sorry you had to read this. I don’t write, I work.” That was the closing sentence in an essay written by one of our students at orientation. We always knew that this apparent crisis of work versus writing – labor versus academics – existed for many of our students, but we’d never encountered a statement as poignant as this one. Many students question the purpose of a college degree (and especially a writing class!) in their apprenticeship programs, and still others have somehow come to believe that they are incapable of writing anything of merit, scholarship, or interest.
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Fraser, R., Mavrogiannis, S. (2017). “I Don’t Write, I Work”. In: Jelly, K., Mandell, A. (eds) Principles, Practices, and Creative Tensions in Progressive Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-884-6_9
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