The army of folks who defend Don....
From: Maja Joiwind
Reply-To: Writing Program Administration
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:30:34 -0500
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Well, yes, but "processing" doesn't have the same ring! I doubt that Murray thought of "the pig" as that Romantic Something. In the same paragraph as the analogy, he's calling for us to study what writers are doing, thinking, and writing from start to finish.
"It is possible, however, for us to follow the process forward from blank page to final draft and learn something of what happens. We can study writing as it evolves in our own minds and on our own pages and as it finds its own meaning through the hands of our writer colleagues and our writing students."
He's looking for an observation and description of actions and thoughts. He isn't calling for us to turn our attention to a mysterious Muse, no matter what Berlin might say.
Maja Wilson
His very lucidity, we feel, may have caused some contemporary scholars to diminish the intellectual work that is represented in these essays. (Newkirk and Miller, x)
The many voices of Donald Murray
Manifesto
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