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I remember spending hours commenting painstakingly on my students’ papers when I was a graduate student teaching in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. My students loved our classes ...

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With a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in creative writing, Alexandra Kostoulas has had many teachers and learned many approaches to writing, but of all the courses she's taken, the one that ...

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