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]]> Sometimes, a writer’s “instinct” is nothing more than the impulse to reach for the cliché phrase or the pre-packaged idea. We should assign exercises that force students to move beyond their “instincts” and to choose the second or third thing they think of, rather than the first… like this blog post I’ve assigned myself, which I have now revised three times.

 

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