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Tips from a masterful teacher from Stony Brook

To Roger Rosenblatt, the story's the thing.

"We start with the story because it is basic to human nature," Rosenblatt said Wednesday to a lecture hall at Stony Brook University packed with more than 120 students, faculty and the curious who came to his talk, "You Can't Teach Writing? Nonsense."

Rosenblatt, a distinguished professor of English at Stony Brook, is one of three finalists...

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