Re[2]: if you only had 75 minutes

["Denise Stephenson"<stephend@gvsu.edu>]

     I second that!! I'm working with faculty to develop these skills. 
     Really, I should call it an awareness. The more "concrete" the 
     assignment, the better chance anyone, a creative writer or not, will 
     have of addressing what the "grader" is really expecting.
     
     Denise


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Subject: Re: if you only had 75 minutes 
Author:  <wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu > at Internet
Date:    11/3/97 9:38 AM


I have found it very useful in teaching composition (actually in giving 
any writing assignment) to give my students a written description of the 
assighment that includes the actual assighment--what the student is being 
asked to write--along with a list of "goals" for the assignment, some 
prompts that might help with pre-writing, and the criteria on which the 
grade for the writing will be based.  I think any 75 min. workshop on 
teaching comp should include at least some time for how to write the 
writing assignment.
     
                          stephen newmann
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On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, WILL HOCHMAN wrote:
     
> Nick, that "chance" is something I don't leave to fate...I like to assign 
> "metawriting" with most of my assignments...in essence, I ask my students 
> to "tell the story" of writing the essay.  This helps students see their 
> own processes more quickly (we practice process but we can also show
> writers to become more aware of their individual process needs) and it 
> helps me respond more intelligently...10-15 minutes of metawriting can 
> cut through a lot of crap--i recommend it! will
> 
> On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Nick Carbone wrote: 
> 
> > 
> > Ever get the chance to look at a student's journal entry on a topic and 
> > then her paper?  Sometimes it's like two different people.  Students see
> > it too. You'll tell them that what's in the journal sounds so much better 
> > and ask why they didn't say it that way in the paper.  The most common
> > anser I get is a variant of 'I didn't think I was allowed to or that I
> > should.'  Pretty much the same reasons Sanders and Eldred gave for taking 
> > so long to write personal essays.  
> > 
> > 
> > Nick Carbone, Writing Instructor 
> > Marlboro College
> > Marlboro, VT 05344
> > nickc@marlboro.edu, but coming to you via nickc@english.umass.edu 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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