Ze Only Confuses Hir Students: Teaching Gender Neutral Pronouns
May 16, 2012 by Ashley Thorne |
If gender is pliable, why not grammar?
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How to Be Succinct
May 01, 2012 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood suggests ways to keep it short.
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The Terrible Textbooks of Freshman Comp
Mar 27, 2012 by Mary Grabar |
The anthologies used in many freshman composition courses tell students what to think, not how to write.
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Sentenced
Nov 08, 2011 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood weighs Stanley Fish’s new book on how to teach college rhetoric.
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Why I Might Stop Assigning Essays
Oct 05, 2011 by Jason Fertig |
Jason Fertig weighs the importance of teaching students to write against the other demands on faculty members' time.
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Down with Research Papers, Up with Essays
Aug 10, 2011 by George Leef |
That’s the argument Professor Thomas Bertonneau makes in this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call. Research papers, he contends, merely encourage students to cobble together opinions by “research” that consists… Continue Reading | 1 Comment >
Colleges Ignore the Most Basic of Skills—Writing
Jun 22, 2011 by George Leef |
In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Professor Murray Sperber points out that most college courses do little or nothing to help students become good (or even moderately competent) at that most basic of skills -- writing.
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Can You Drop It on Your Foot?
Jun 02, 2011 by John Maguire |
A college writing professor urges students to avoid "abstractitis" and use concrete nouns.
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They Can Write
May 06, 2011 by Will Fitzhugh |
Despite most people's willingness to dismiss their intellectual capabilities, high school students can rise to high standards if we expect them to.
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Many British College Students Can’t Write Either
Apr 26, 2011 by George Leef |
A common complaint with regard to American college grads is that they write very poorly. Apparently, it's a problem in Britain as well.
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Disadvantaged Students
Apr 11, 2011 by Will Fitzhugh |
The truly disadvantaged are those who have not been sufficiently taught how to read and write and graduate from high school unprepared for college.
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Betrayed by Higher Ed…Again
Apr 08, 2011 by David Clemens |
My post “Betrayed by Higher Ed” has occasioned so many comments and emails that I want to offer a group response.
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“Accepted Student Day”
Apr 04, 2011 by George Leef |
In an excellent Wall Street Journal piece, Andrew Ferguson, author of Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College writes about his visit to one of the schools where his son was accepted. It's a warts-and-all… Continue Reading | 1 Comment >
Some College Students Really Do Learn Critical Thinking
Mar 16, 2011 by George Leef |
In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, Professor David Clemens discusses the general failure to teach college students critical thinking — despite the fact that many schools trumpet that as one of their goals… Continue Reading | 5 Comments >
How Writing a Sonnet Helps Students Learn English
Jan 18, 2011 by George Leef |
In today's Pope Center piece, Troy Camplin explains the benefits of giving students a seemingly outmoded and irrelevant writing assignment -- composing a sonnet.
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