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November 1, 2026
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5 min (est.)
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Vol. 84
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No. 3
From the Editor

The Ugly First Draft

Perfectionism stalls student writing. Messy first drafts set it free.

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The magazine cover for the issue "Cultivating Confident Writers", featuring an illustration of a typewriter. The white paper emerging from the machine has the words Cultivating Confident Writers.
Cultivating Confident Writers
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