"Something that is without content can't be taught because teaching something requires gleening the meaning from the writing and then repositioning it in dialog

"Something that is without content can't be taught because teaching something requires gleening the meaning from the writing and then repositioning it in dialogue." If it's literally contentless, okay. But something that merely has low levels of content can definitely be taught; the teacher just has to pad out the content with any of a number of time-wasters. As somebody who went to high school, I can attest that this is not very hard to do. This particular book (or at least its excerpt) suffers, in my opinion, from an excess of examples and the occasional restatement. That's not to say that it's a bad book. Virtually all nonfiction, other than textbooks, has this problem (and as a result I very rarely actually finish a nonfictional book). I think that many of the author's points are valuable even for competent writers. But it is kind of bloated.