No research necessary. I really think a person learns how to teach writing by writing, by grading essays one paragraph at a time, one sentence at a time, and finally one word at a time. By having conferences, working in groups, working as a lecturer, by reading and imitating and creating and criticizing. In short, by practice. Good teachers practice teaching.
Bad teachers practice something else, often b.s.
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