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Subject:Re: Help w/TW skills From:LynnDianne Beene <lbeene -at- UNM -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:56:38 -0700
Marci--
What a wonderful assignment, especially for the class I'm
about to teach because it's not a beginner's class in TW
but it's also not an advanced class. I'm going to give
some serious thought to how to make this work for me.
Thanks for sharing it!
Lynn Beene email: lbeene -at- unm -dot- edu
B & F Writers Albuquerque, New Mexico 87123
Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
--Socrates
On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Mercedes Abels wrote:
> One of the most helpful exercises we went through in our classes
> involved writing a text for the following classes. Each student was to
> present two case studies, with an explanation of the situation, the
> problems(s) needing to be solved and a list of questions/assignments for
> the reader of the case study. When the semester was over, the case
> studies were organized into a reader text and used in the class for the
> next beginning class. The students had a part in writing a text book and
> it was a very good exercise for us to see how to organize the case study
> and how to effectively process the information into a usable product.
> Each semester, new case studies are added to the reader and some are
> dropped off. Students are required to use the reader in their beginning
> TW class. That and the required internship were the two most helpful
> projects I've encountered in my studies so far.