The writing problem I am working on is ideation. Most of my high school students struggle to take a kernel of an idea and grow it, and helping my students with ideation proved to “make a qualitative difference to the students’ future writing” (Wallack 28-29). Bean identified a related “student problem” as “failure to assimilate the unfamiliar; resistance to uncomfortable or disorienting views.” His recommended “helping strategy” includes drawing “analogies to other times when students have had