POINT OF VIEW

In Teaching Composition, 'Formulaic' Is Not a 4-Letter Word

By CATHY BIRKENSTEIN and GERALD GRAFF

One of the least-examined assumptions among academics today is that being "formulaic" — using established formulas to structure thought — is always a bad thing. In the field of rhetoric and composition, to say that a mode of writing instruction is formulaic...

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