a suggestion to add to a syllabus

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having just heard a lecture from brad hughes, of the uw-madison writing center,
courtesy my director, dr. gillespie, i am reminded of a reading that really
helped me as a tutor -- even though it wasn't in the course i took.

dr. hughes' talk was about reader-response theory in the writing center. i had
read an excerpt from an iser book; the excerpt was called "the phenomenology of
reading." 

the consciousness of what goes on in the reading process which this (and
similar reader-response readings) made me sensitive of why i was responding to
student texts the way i was.

i recommend that kind of a reading, perhaps coordinated with the more practical
materials which dr. hughes lecture provides. (the reading, if you will,
explains the theory; hughes explains the practice.)

david beard
"the dancing tutor"
ott memorial writing center
marquette university
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