The brilliant professor Mark Bauerlein scores yet another direct hit in a recent post about the value of those old-fashioned writing assignments: In my classes I include both types of assignments, short, one-page writings and longer 7-page papers (I rarely go over 10 pages these days, but I try to make the class have 25-30 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘writing process’
The Value of Term Papers
Posted in Education, Language and Literature, tagged Mark Bauerlein, teaching, writing, writing process on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Scrutiny in Teaching Writing
Posted in Education, Language and Literature, tagged English, National Review, teaching, writing, writing process on November 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A post at National Review, and some great follow up comments from readers, offers some great ideas about teaching writing: The only way to address writing is to give line-by-line feedback. We cannot assume that students know what good writing looks like. Every time students pass a written assignment at any level with subpar writing, such [...]
On Teaching Writing Vs. Teaching Literature
Posted in Education, tagged composition, editing, English, reading, revision, teaching, writing, writing process on May 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A couple of notable essays have appeared recently about focusing on teaching writing, as opposed to literature. Here are a few money quotes, starting with the original piece in Salon: It’s hard to blame anyone for not wanting to teach writing, which, while it might not involve manual labor or public floggings, is hard, grueling work. Often [...]
What’s Wrong–And What’s Right–With Student Writing
Posted in Education, Language and Literature, tagged effective teaching, language, reading, revision, teaching, writing, writing process on November 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I got a reading-response journal from a high school freshman in my honors class, about an excerpt from Plato’s dialogue Crito (which I’ve described and quoted here before); her paper started off like this: From Cristo was written by Plato. This story talks about this guy named Socrates whom was sentenced to presin for [...]
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