I am awfully sorry, Katherine, but what's great about this article? Once
again, it completely ignores our discipline and anything that we know
about writing. Adding rubrics and checklists or models is not going to
result in better writing, and we know that. A lot of excellent writing
centres have been closed down, people fired, etc. I'm glad Boba was part
of this effort, but the report's advice to co-teach can be helpful only
if the institution supports it.
Natasha
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On 10/15/2015 12:37 PM, Kathryn Alexander wrote:
> Great article and depressing given all the hard work in the past decade being dismantled as writing centres are being moved into student learning commons
>
> Kathryn
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> There's an interesting article in University Affairs on the HEQCO report on writing assignments by Jordana Garbati, Kelly McDonald, Lindsay Meaning, Boba Samuels, and Cory Scurr:
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> http://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/study-finds-a-lack-of-structure-and-cohesion-in-how-writing-is-taught-at-university/?c=1#comments
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> Best,
> Andrea
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