Nathan P. Gilmour

Composition as Conversation

Theology

“Writing well requires certain kinds of human beings to do the writing, and the kinds of human beings who write well only emerge by writing well. Heather Hoover solves this Riddle of the Sphinx not by forsaking writing but by teaching writing, and this book without relent returns us, her readers, to reflect on the dynamic nature and capacities and virtues of those human beings whom we teach. We who teach writing, whether in college classrooms or anywhere else human community happens, do well to heed.”