Examining the Motives for Veterans Writing Workshops: Is It Clinical, Political, Instructional, or All the Above?

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2013-04-15
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Virginia Tech
Veterans in Society: Changing the Discourse
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This paper surveys some of the issues involved with forming a veterans writing group. There appear to be three reasons for starting a veterans writing group: therapy, politics, or instruction, and these intentions often merge. Through interviews with administers and facilitators of veterans writing groups, I examine these motives in an attempt to show college English teachers the challenges they could face when they move beyond the instructional into the clinical or political.

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Veterans, Writing, Workshops, Motives, Teachers, English
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