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Teaching Nonfiction

If you’re coming here from the Brevity Magazine blog and are interested in any of my thoughts on teaching nonfiction, well, here you go:

Teaching essay writing, part I

Teaching essay writing, part II (“Don’t write about themes”)

Posted on April 22, 2019April 23, 2019Author JohnCategories writing

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