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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:46:16 CST
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- From: "David H. Roberts" <DHROBERT@SAMFORD.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: High school/college comp cou
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- David S:
- On Writing Project sites being the most effective link between college
- and public schools:
-
- You are right--effective, useful, and hard work. I have started two
- NWP sites, one in Mississippi and one in Alabama. Although I have had
- faculty appointments inEnglish, the department doesn't care to know that
- the site exists or that the link is effective. I am always scrounging
- for $ to keep the thing operational and always criticized for spending
- too much time in the public schools and too little time teaching
- classes. No matter that I bring in more external funding than the cost
- of my released time, the bottom line is STUDETN CREDIT HOURS GENERATED!
- And, in the department, of course, literature reigns over comp/rhet.
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- My wife nearly divorced me when I started the 2nd writing project site,
- barely a year after my first heart atack and a month before my second.
-
- Still, the writing project work is the most important thing I've done &
- and the most effective teaching I've ever been involved in.
-
- __________________________________________
- David H. Roberts
- Director of University Writing Programs
- Samford University
- Birmingham, AL 35229-2207 USA
- Voice: (205) 870-2964; Fax: (205) 870-2384
- Bitnet: DHROBERT@SAMFORD
- CIS: 72630,3633
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