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DROPitTOme - Securely receive files from anyone to your Dropbox 1000 Awesome Things | A time-ticking countdown of 1000 awesome things by Neil Pasricha ProfHacker A few weeks ago my ProfHacker colleague Mark Sample posted a wonderful article on his personal blog, “On Reading Aloud in the Classroom.” In that post, Mark takes on the perception shared by many in our field that “Asking students to take turns reading a text aloud offends our sensibilities as literature professors. It’s remedial. Childish.” Instead, Mark argues alongside Sheridan Blau, “one of the most powerful tools at the disposal of readers is rereading. In this post I want to reflect in a related way about in-class writing, which I think of as writing in public—an idea distinct from, though not always separate from, writing for the public). I suspect not much. The past few semesters, however, I’ve been devoting substantial time to in-class work on formal writing assignments. Writing in class forces students to think and plan ahead. [Creative Commons licensed photo by Flickr user Wiertz Sébastien.] Return to Top
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