An open letter to colleagues working to improve student success in higher education

Choosing to write a letter rather than a conventional article has enabled me to use a more personal voice when talking about the frustrations and joys of my twenty years of working in literacy ­development. It has allowed me to feel freer to play with language so that I could express an overtly embodied form of reasoning which, to paraphrase Peter Elbow, felt right in my mouth and sounded right in my ear.