Conferences
“If you can keep only one thing in mind, and I fail
at this half the
time, it is that we are teaching the writer and not the writing. If the piece of writing gets better, but the
writer has learned nothing
that will help him or her another day on another piece, then the conference was a waste of everyone’s time. It may have done more harm than
good, for such conferences
teach students to be dependent on us.” Lucy McCormick Calkins