From what I’ve witnessed in my classroom, the main struggle comes down to a lack of vocabulary [defined as broadly as possible]. My students have ideas in their head of what they want to say, but they struggle with the transformation of ideas to text. This problem manifested itself in a different way with the […]
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You Can Lead a Horse to Water but You Can’t Make Them Drink
When I think of the idealistic outcomes of the course, my mind immediate goes to the objectives I list in my syllabus: Learning to think about writing in terms of discourse Learning to see revision as the cornerstone of good writing Becoming self-motivated and self-directed learners Learning to identify the impact of and to effectively employ writing tools such […]