Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Good Writers Always Follow My Rules" by Monique Dufour (https://moniquedufour.com/) and Jennifer Ahern-Dodson (@jaherndodson). It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.
Chapter keywords: good/effective writing, prescriptive writing, style, writer’s block, writing process
Monique Dufour is an assistant collegiate professor in the history department at Virginia Tech, where she is also director of graduate student professional development in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. She offers retreats, workshops and consultations for faculty and graduate students about their writing and their teaching, and about how to balance them both. Currently, she is writing a book, Teaching with TIME in Mind: Why It's Hard, Why You Should, and How You Can. To contact her, visit moniquedufour.com. (2021 bio)
Jennifer Ahern-Dodson teaches writing, student activism, and women's leadership at Duke University. She also directs the Faculty Write Program and consults with faculty across disciplines on ways to teach and assess writing and make connections between their own writing practices and their teaching. In her research, she studies structures in which writers work and the conditions under which they thrive or struggle, and has been working with student, community, and faculty writers for more than 20 years. She is @jaherndodson on Twitter. (2021 bio)
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