Having Something to Say

Abstract

S IR : I have read the article, ‘You Can't Write Writing,’ with a great deal of interest and, I hope, with some profit. With most of it I am in hearty agreement; with little of what is said am I, as an English teacher, disposed to quarrel. I suspect, however, that Professor Johnson's success in teaching graduate students to write is in large part due to the opportunity for individual instruction —an opportunity too seldom offered to or takenby instructors in large freshman classes. It is, I believe, only by individual instruction that real progress in composition can be realized.