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The real question is why UA published such a banal piece of badly researched
drivel that perpetuates the myth of the declining undergraduate and sounds
the eternal whinge of the professor who wants someone else to take
responsibility to fix this "skill" (as if it were a disease). 

Rob Irish

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Starke-Meyerring, Dr.
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Thanks for sharing this, Tania. Very interesting. The person must have
missed the Dalhousie conference on critical writing and critical thinking
and Anthony's talk, which explains the issues very nicely for a broader
audience:

Paré, A. (2007). What we know about writing, and why it matter. Plenary
address, Critical writing, critical thinking conference, Dalhousie
University, Halifax, May 2-3
http://faculty.msvu.ca/SusanDrain/pare%20keynote.pdf.

Doreen


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Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 5:00 PM
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Subject: University Affairs article on writing at universities

I just found the latest University Affairs magazine in my mailbox today, 
and look!  There's an article about writing instruction at universities! 

http://www.universityaffairs.ca/issues/2008/april/opinion_01.html

So... who among us is going to write in a letter to the editor and 
inform the readers of University Affairs that there ARE experts in 
written composition at Canadian universities, that writing instruction 
is not just a job for TAs, and that "understanding how [language] works 
psychologically" is a part of the interdisciplinary field of rhetorical 
studies? 

--
Tania Smith
Assistant Professor
University of Calgary

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