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My philosophy as a teacher of writing in China is that learning how to write well in English issimply a matter of what skills students should acquire and how they acquire them. After teaching in　China for a few years, I begin to detect patterns among the thousands of papers I've read and　marked. Among these was students' inability to find their own voice; a lack of understanding of　what native English-speakers expect and value in writing; the repetition and so-called "stock　language" and ideas used by Chinese students; the very mechanical nature of many students'writing.