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I've taught college-level composition for more than ten years, working at both state and private institutions. For every major assignment, my students bring typed rough drafts to class and share them in workshop groups-as the prevailing process orthodoxy tells me they should. Over the years, I've given students handouts to fill in for each draft they read, I've graded them on the quality of their work as editors, and I've monitored the workshop groups like a hawk. One common feature runs through this otherwise ever-changing pedagogical endeavor: I require students to read their drafts aloud. This embarrasses them. They apologize to one another for the quality of their writing before they read.They resist. Sometimes, in one group or another, they simply refuse: They quietly read and respond to one another's drafts as the rest...