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Should We Really ABOLISH the Term Paper? A Response to the NY Times | HASTAC - 46 views

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  • I no longer engage in a ritual that too often happens among assigners of research papers (you know who you are), that frantic last week reading and marking 50 term papers before grades are due.  Too often, in the old days, I would read and write comments on papers that wound up in a box outside my office door that few students ever came by to collect--a pointless and deadening pedagogy if there ever was one. 
  • Interestingly, the tipping point in these classes is when someone the student doesn't know, an anonymous stranger, responds to their work.  When it is substantive, the student is elated and surprised that their words were taken seriously.   When it is rude or trollish, the student is offended.  Both responses are good.  The Internet needs more people committed to its improvement, to serious discourse.
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Blogs vs. Term Papers - NYTimes.com - 56 views

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  • We don’t pay taxes so kids can talk about themselves and their home lives.”
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      Katt Blackwell-Starnes on 19 Feb 12
       
      Do they really think the only purpose of a blog in the classroom is to talk about home life? Do they think educators are incapable of designing blog assignments that further the learning of the course and help students better understand the importance of audience and exigency in writing?
  • Her conclusion is that students feel much more impassioned by the new literacy. They love writing for an audience, engaging with it. They feel as if they’re actually producing something personally rewarding and valuable, whereas when they write a term paper, they feel as if they do so only to produce a grade.
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Blogs vs. Term Papers - NYTimes.com - 8 views

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  • “It doesn’t mean there aren’t interesting blogs. But nobody would conflate interesting writing with premise, evidence, argument and conclusion.”
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      Katt Blackwell-Starnes on 19 Feb 12
       
      Does he mean confuse or does he mean that there is no way for an argumentative assignment to be interesting? I'm also curious if Reeves is reading any academic and/or professional blogs. Perhaps I'm just angry at this sentence because I'm a blogger who works hard to make my argumentative posts interesting and valid to my readers..
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Bedford/St. Martin's - The Bedford Bibliography: Contents - 19 views

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  • Publisher's Note Preface A Brief History of Rhetoric and Composition Bibliography Resources
  • Katt Blackwell-Starnes on 11 Nov 09
     
    Title page for the Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing
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using diigo with students - 569 views

started by Andy Whiteway on 16 Mar 09 no follow-up yet
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    #9 Katt Blackwell-Starnes on 11 Oct 09
     
    I'm interested to see where this conversation goes next. There's some great information and pointers here. Thanks for the blog link, Andy. I'll be keeping up with what you're writing.

    In just over two weeks, I defend my doctoral dissertation prospectus. Over the next year, I'll be investigating the use of Diigo to help students improve writing to specific audiences--as the focus of my dissertation). I'm working specifically with college students, but I'm keeping up with the dialogue in K-12 as well. I think we can learn a lot from each other.

    I'll be posting many of my references to my Diigo account and blogging a good bit of my dissertation at http://prelimsandbeyond.wordpress.com/.
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