Michael Roth wrote:
Writing is for me the primary activity... unless I can write something in ways that others can understand I do not have the sense that I understand. So writing IS learning, whereas talk, and email is an extension of talk, doesn't do the same thing.
Someone was writing here the other day that s/he was thinking aloud... but thinking aloud is not understanding... it is a process. For me, writing IS thinking--distributed across all the resources and mediated by the particular community and its rules that you can imagine.
Ken Bruffe wrote that all writing is internalized conversation re-externalized.
Or, as I teach my students:
I only know what I know when I've read what I have written or heard what I've said.
For what it's worth.
Michael E.
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