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**Using iTunes U in the Classroom** The Ohio Channel on iTunes U contains a series called “Writers Talk” from the Study and Teaching of Writing (CSTW). "Writers Talk" includes interviews on a variety of writing topics, and the series closely explores how writers produce text and communicate.

There are interviews with several writers from a range of genres. Many graphic novelists are interviewed, as well as musicians, educators, and best-selling authors. Cheryl Ball, the editor of //Kairos//, provides insight on digital technology in the composition classroom. Adriana Trigiani shares a reading from her best-selling novel, and Artie Issaac shares that his best moments speaking and writing are when he’s “addressing deeply earnest people, because they so desperately need to laugh.”

It’s important for students to learn about others’ writing process and realize that writing isn’t always a linear process. Interviews with writers will show students the many approaches writers take to their work, and students will be able to relate to the trials and triumphs of other writers--people who have been in their shoes!

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