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01/14/2004 Archived Entry: "hidden song pedagogy"

Taking my cue from Gerald Graff's "Hidden Intellectualism," I see a model for "hidden writing": The Hidden Song Archive. Students would compose their own "hidden songs": ideas, fragments, observations, concepts, theories, not easily apparent. This would be the opposite of topic sentence driven writing which depends on the obvious. Hidden writing asks students to make their claims, ideas, etc. less obvious and to surround such positions with various anecdotes, observations, ideas, facts, etc.