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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:11:58 CST
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- From: Irvin Peckham <peckham@CWIS.UNOMAHA.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Standard English
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "David E. Schwalm" at Dec 21, 92 10:41 pm
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- >
- > Irv, I have a bit of a problem with the multiple genre syllabus. I'm not sure
- > how much a student learns about a prose genre by having one go at it. The
- > conventions of all the different types of papers you mentioned are
- > complicated, not often spelled out very clearly. One of the things we have to
- > do in our syllabi, in my view, is make choices. We can't do all kinds of
- > writing.
- >
- > -- David E. Schwalm, Assoc. Provost for Academic Programs
- I am concerned about this, too, David. We pick three per semester
- (some do four in the second) out of possible dozens, maybe hundreds.
- This is a compromise. We could do one genre for the semester. I
- would then worry that students would conclude all writing is in
- that genre. One or my goals is to teach students that there are
- different genres (or I should say conceptions of genres) and that
- these genres demand different rhetorical strategies. This seems
- a reasonable objective of writing instruction. I try to arrange
- the genres on a sensible continuum so that students can see how
- one genre fades into another.
- Irv
- --
- Irvin Peckham
- University of Nebraska at Omaha
- peckham@unomaha.edu
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