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Using ‘Jeopardy’ in Classroom Instruction by Jennifer Young

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I would like to share with my fellow writing instructors a game I created for my first semester of teaching RWS 100. The game was inspired by the recent game show craze on television and is a mix of “Jeopardy,” the Win Ben Stein’s Money show on Comedy Central, and “Family Feud.” Its purpose is […]

Clashing Technologies: The legacy of 19th Century Writing Instruction Meets the 21st Century Writing Classroom by Mike Palmquist, Colorado State University

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I’ve taken the liberty of quoting my own work to start this talk, not because I’m enamored with my own prose, but because it sets up a central concern that my colleagues and I have about the way writing is taught in colleges and universities. Writing, as we all know, is something we do – an activity, a process. In fact most of us, if asked, would say that we teach writing using a “process approach.”