Technology Transforms Writing and the Teaching of Writing - Technology - The Chronicle ... - 1 views
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bad habits they fear their students pick up on computers
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Malcolm Campbell on 28 Jul 10Wouldn't it be nice to capture 'gamers' attention for such sites as these? Wonder how it might work?
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Students submit essays that are longer but not better written than those in years past
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This doesn't appear to be the case, re: longer papers. Whycome so many papers fall short of minimum page counts?
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The perils are clearer. "Students will tinker endlessly with the text and forget that their paper doesn't have a thesis," says Kathleen Skubikowski, an assistant professor of English who directs the writing program at Middlebury College. "I receive immaculately word-processed documents that are just terrible," says David Galef, an associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi.
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Interesting! Sometimes a roadblock to me is the time it takes to learn the technology associated with new applications and, like the thesis for students, I'm occaionally in danger of forgetting to plan my class lessons.
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Chronical of Higher Ed piece