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Reading Together

Perusall logoWe’ll use Perusall to annotate and read together. Link here to Perusall. Instructions for joining on the Assignments page.

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Angel Morgan

Angel Morgan

I agree with Wardle. There is value in teaching “about” writing rather than trying to teach students to write in a particular genre. Why not make the purpose of FYC an informative one where each student researches writing in his/her discipline, informs the class about the findings, compare/contrast writing in the workplace with academic writing, synthesize and discuss the findings, and reflect on what was learned about writing? It is not necessary to mirror the genres, but to inform about them. Rather than the teacher learning the genre to teach the student how to write in that format, have the students teach the class how to do it. One problem is that this would create a need for standardizing the curriculum.

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