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Go ahead, tie yourself up in knots

In a class I’m teaching for Bay Path University’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction, the discussion board virtually hops with action. Even though there are only eight and nine students in each of the sections I’m teaching for this class, it’s not unusual for each discussion board to see 50 or 60 posts within five days. My students’ posts are rangy and long and deep-thinking and marked by tangents.

For the first few weeks, there weren’t any restrictions placed on the posts – the students just had to post their reactions to

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