Written by Jeffrey Schulz on Sunday, November 25, 2007 at 19:57
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As guest blogger coming off a Thanksgiving-typtophan stupor, I found myself asking the very question many of my English students have posed over the years. A recent posting on Insidehighered.com told about a curriculum redesign of writing for frst-year students.
Scott Warnock of Drexell University says about the redesign:
“The conventional way that assignments are presented to students isn’t always relevant to them,” Warnock said. “We can change that by trying to create context.”
First-Year Writing Gets a New Look
Here is an example of educators collaborating in an attempt to move toward both relevance and context creation.
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AMA citation:
Schulz J. “So, uh, what should I write about?”. Education Futures. 2007. Available at: http://www.educationfutures.com/2007/11/25/%e2%80%9cso-uh-what-should-i-write-about%e2%80%9d/. Accessed May 15, 2008.
APA citation:
Schulz, Jeffrey. (2007). “So, uh, what should I write about?”. Retrieved May 15, 2008, from Education Futures Web site: http://www.educationfutures.com/2007/11/25/%e2%80%9cso-uh-what-should-i-write-about%e2%80%9d/
Chicago citation:
Schulz, Jeffrey. 2007. “So, uh, what should I write about?”. Education Futures. http://www.educationfutures.com/2007/11/25/%e2%80%9cso-uh-what-should-i-write-about%e2%80%9d/ (accessed May 15, 2008).
Harvard citation:
Schulz, J 2007, “So, uh, what should I write about?”, Education Futures. Retrieved May 15, 2008, from <http://www.educationfutures.com/2007/11/25/%e2%80%9cso-uh-what-should-i-write-about%e2%80%9d/>
MLA citation:
Schulz, Jeffrey. "“So, uh, what should I write about?”." 25 Nov. 2007. Education Futures. Accessed 15 May. 2008. <http://www.educationfutures.com/2007/11/25/%e2%80%9cso-uh-what-should-i-write-about%e2%80%9d/>
