Re: Collaborative projects -Reply

[Janeen Myers <janeenm@osuokc.okstate.edu>]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>There is an interesting article in "Innovation
Abstracts" Vol XVII, No 28, on evaluation criteria for collaborative
activities.  Might be helpful.  It was to me.
Janeen Myers
The Learning Center
Okla State U/Okla City
900 N. Portland
Okla City, OK 73107
janeenm@osuokc.okstate.edu
Mickey and Beth:

Thanks for the tips on responding to collaborative writing projects! 
 I'm dodging snow-storms at the moment, but will try to get my act
together as soon as possible.  I'll begin by following your leads.

Also, Beth, I'd have to look at the Center's records to give you
accurate information about the kinds of collaborative projects
students brought in.
Right now I'm over in the English department doing my e-mail since
our
Center is not wired.    I don't recall off-hand what the education
folks did this semester, but I do know that in the past some students
have been assigned (in Ted Sizer's class, I think) to come up with
detailed plans for their own school.  I did two conferences with
bio-med writers (same people each time); they were doing research on
the legitimacy of nurse practitioners and physicians assistants in
the face of resistance from the medical establishment.   One of the
main problems for this group was how to collate their research;
another was how to keep the overall section momentum going in their
paper.   I do know, however, that the writers from the education
course (the ones I talked to, that is ) were generally frustrated by
the assignment, whatever it was this time.

Colloboration - in whatever form -  seems to be triggering a lot of
interest here at Brown and elsewhere.   What I don't know and need to
look at is how this is being implemented in various courses (beyond
the few instances I'm aware of)  so as to see where (or if) the
Writing Center fits in.    At some point, Center initiated
collaborations might be worth developing, but right now  I need to
find out more about the criteria that
(non-English department) faculty use for the projects they assign.

Let me know if you think of anything else!  Thanks again.

Catherine

Catherine Imbriglio
Coordinator of the Writing Center
Box 1852  English
Brown University
Providence RI 02912
Catherine_Imbriglio@Brown.edu




Catherine Imbriglio
Coordinator of the Writing Center
Box 1852  English
Brown University
Providence RI 02912
Catherine_Imbriglio@Brown.edu



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