Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "You Need My Credentials to be a Writer" by Ronald Clark Brooks (@RhetOrRon). It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Chapter keywords: credentials, empowerment, growth, optimism, process movement, support, writing community

Ronald Clark Brooks is an associate professor and chair of the writing studies department at Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ. One of his primary interests is helping students learn to think of themselves as writers.

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