A New Type of University Writing Course
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Saved by 10 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-07-29
- Jmcrsmith on 2009-07-25 - Tags writing , blogging , teaching , course , web2.0
- Charles on 2008-11-09 - Tags writing , composition , blogging , web2.0
- Sarahhanawald on 2008-09-11 - Tags writing , technology , 21st century
- Angelamaiers on 2008-09-11 - Tags Writing , Duke , university , course
- Lauralf on 2008-09-10 - Tags teaching , digital_literacy , workshop , curriculum
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technology has altered radically what it means to write both in and for today’s world
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most of my students write several hours a day.
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Clearly, the social, commercial and academic reasons for why and when we write are changing both rapidly and fundamentally
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As part of this change, technology has radically extended the spaces for academic debate. In real ways, blogging and other forms of virtual debate actually foster the very types of intellectual exchange, analysis and argumentative writing that universities value.
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technology has radically extended the spaces for academic debate.
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high schools and their curricula are failing to keep pace with those same advances.
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In addition to blogs, they also maintain websites where they learn to interact with other writers beyond the isolating confines of classroom. They defend their analyses and argue with real purpose because they are forced to be conscious of an audience beyond the limited scope of the instructor. Consequently, they are learning to both think and write critically in ways that promote both inquiry and genuine interest in writing and thinking.
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we now live in a world where both debate and publication happen predominantly in virtual spaces.
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real-world issues
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Without real opportunities for students to publish their writing, they will assess that they write not for meaning, intellectual discovery, communication or understanding, but rather in obligatory, outdated, punitive and procedural ways to obtain grades.
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Teachers seek opportunities for writing to both engage and challenge students to think critically throughout the processes of intellectual debate. Writing courses that remain wedded to the genre and methods of the past merely limit students’ ability to imagine their work as real.
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