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- Title: With a Little Help from My Friends (And Mark Twain Too): Musings and Farewells (Exceptional Children) (Editorial)
- Author : Exceptional Children
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 197 KB
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Over the years, I have drawn on a variety of friends, both fictional and real, to help me make specific points when writing professional papers and books for teachers, administrators, and researchers. This included Snoopy and other Peanut characters to describe how struggling writers compose (Graham, & Harris, 2002); Calvin and his imaginary tiger Hobbes to introduce sound instructional principles (Graham & Harris, 2002); the producer, writers, and actors from a Star Trek film to develop an analogy for how a program of research develops and evolves over time (Graham & Harris, 2009); the work of scientists conducting dubious research to highlight concerns and issues in contemporary intervention research in special education (Graham, 2005); and the voices of professional writers throughout the ages to illustrate what is involved in skilled writing (Graham & Harris, 2005). In this farewell to the field as the editor of Exceptional Children from 2003 to 2010, I call once again on an old friend (at least I like to think so). He is one of the most influential American writers of all time: Samuel Clemens or, as we more commonly know him, Mark Twain. At first glance, this may seem like an odd choice, as he was not always a fan of editors, as evidenced by this quote from a letter published in the Chicago Daily Tribune (1906):