Do college teachers read out loud to their students? This one does, and, more, demands that students read out loud, too, not just the literature we're reading, but samples of their own writing. I hear them stumble constantly, not because they can't read, but because they've read so much bad prose that they've learned--indeed, they've often been explicitly taught--to skim. They need to be shown the value of each individual word, and reading aloud is the quickest way. Gregg