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Phil Taylor

Bringing "Traditional" Essay Writing into the Digital World | NWP Digital Is - 1 views

  • We knew that they would engage with all kinds of digital writing and composition, but we did not want to ignore more "old-fashioned" writing formats
Phil Taylor

Learning to Slow Down - 0 views

  • What our computers cannot do, and in fact hinder us from doing, is to facilitate thinking deeply about complex issues.
  • When my students write an essay, there comes a time when they must slow down their thoughts to the speed of composition. For most students, this is an uncomfortable situation.
Phil Taylor

What's the big deal about Blogging? « My Island View - 0 views

  • Writing for an audience of only one is a tedious process. This is the preferred method in education. The writer needs to wait for the composition to be graded
Phil Taylor

The dumbest generation? No, Twitter is making kids smarter - The Globe and Mail - 1 views

  • The only way to tell whether kids today are really less coherent or literate than their great-grandparents is to compare student writing across the past century
  • Over the past century, the freshman composition papers had exploded in length and intellectual complexity.
  • Prof. Lunsford’s research has found, 40 per cent of all writing is done outside the classroom – it’s “life writing,” stuff students do socially, or just for fun.
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