MAILING LISTS

As a 'newbie' to TBL, I may be a bit off in the following response to
Lance's question, but here goes - how about as a part of the writing
learning process you have the small groups critique (as in try to find and
correct) papers written either by current students or previous semester
students.  I doubt you'll have any problem finding samples of papers that
have been poorly written; just make sure the names have been removed.  So
it would go something like this:  you do a lesson on the correct way to
write a title page, the students form small groups and critique samples of
incorrectly written title pages, then write their own individual title
pages.  Each component/lesson could be designed this way.

What do others think?

Chuck Killingsworth

> I teach Freshman composition. I.e. a class that has individual papers as
> the primary grading
> criteria, and frankly, as the entire point of the class. Team learning
> sounds fascinating, but
> antithetical to the nature of my class.  A person must learn to write a
> paper on their own.
> To do otherwise is to breach academic integrity, at least of this class.
> (One cannot
> represent as one's own work the work of someone else, nor of a
> collaboration.) Is there a
> work around to a class that demands individual projects as the fundamental
> grading criterion.
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