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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:45:00 CST
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- From: Irvin Peckham <peckham@CWIS.UNOMAHA.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Standard English
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "Eric Crump" at Dec 22, 92 9:59 am
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- >
- > On Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:06:00 EST <MLB14@PSUVM> said:
- > >but I'd really like to do something much more exciting. Like making all
- > >freshman writing courses lab courses--have the whole shootin' match done by
- > >means of tutorials.
- >
- > I have the same fantasy, Marcy: writing development (nee instruction)
- > made personal, because as you point out later in your note, students
- > are not so generalizable as we sometimes make out. Their differences
- > --Eric Crump
- >
- Un unh, Eric and Marcy. The tutorial fosters a dependancy on the good
- ol' teacher--lot of ideological implications there, practical disadvantages
- as well. Go with groups. Let the teacher (as dominant instructor, telling
- writers how to write) fade away. She organizes and shapes group
- instruction. The whole point is to teach them how to help one
- another, which is the same as teaching them how to help themselves
- rather than look to the authority for correction.
- Irv
- (Sorry for my didactic tone.)
-
- --
- Irvin Peckham
- University of Nebraska at Omaha
- peckham@unomaha.edu
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