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Exploring the Relationship of a Writer and Her Audience as Parallel to the Relationship of a Teacher with Her Students

Shannon M. Turner

North Carolina State University

June 28, 2010

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.  The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. 

~Sylvia Plath

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job. 

~Donald D. Quinn