In a new series, our columnist offers advice on using what you know about teaching to improve your public writing.

By actively applying new concepts as you learn, you’ll master the course content more ... be eager to adapt our writing and publishing advice to an existing personal project.

For writing projects specifically, her advice was to “write fast, edit slow.” She aims to write a chapter every week, and within that week, to write the bulk of the chapter on Monday and Tuesday.

The projects provided the students a chance to hone an underrated but critically important writing skill. “This is an area where we do see there are opportunities and there are jobs for English majors ...

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