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ERRR #076. Nathaniel Swain on Writing to Learn

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Extensive Instruction in the Knowledge of the Language Structures

Daisy Kristalou: Explicit instruction demystifies what experts do and means that people who don't naturally pick these things up from their environment, stand a chance. She says we need to support people who are writing ways that we don't necessarily speak because oral language affords a lot of flexibility. "A lot of the best orators speak the way that one would like to write with the structure," she adds.

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