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What Should Colleges Teach? Part 3 - Stanley Fish Blog - NYTimes.com
Thought provoking article on teaching writing including some interesting exercises. Includes links back to parts 1 and 2
MLA Formatting and Style Guide: MLA Update 2009 - The OWL at Purdue
Recent changes in MLA style sheets -- no underlining book titles! No URLs for web sites! New publication medium requirements!
Op-Ed Contributor - End the University as We Know It - NYTimes.com
Is the ELP a model for the university of the future? We seem to fit some of the recommendations in this article. However, there are ideas here that would be good for us to consider as well.
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Abolish permanent departments, even for undergraduate education, and create problem-focused programs
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Tenure should be replaced with seven-year contracts, which, like the programs in which faculty teach, can be terminated or renewed. This policy would enable colleges and universities to reward researchers, scholars and teachers who continue to evolve and remain productive while also making room for young people with new ideas and skills.
Reading the Reader | Academic Commons
A possible activity for ELP students. Note that Gdocs that are shared with collaborators can also be used in this way for annotation, but can be done as a group instead of just individuals.
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As Frank Smith reminds us, “Ignorance is not so much not knowing an answer as not knowing that there is a question, not being able to think when thinking is required. Ignorance is a blind dependence that someone else will be able to tell you what to do.”5
Academic Info
This site provides a lot content potentially useful to teachers and students. Try going into "Subject Guides" and then search a topci like Race.
ACRL - Teaching Undergrads Web Evaluation
A good resource to help our students learn how to use the Web more effectively in getting sources for essays and research papers. This was shared by Ed McDaniel following a talk I had with him.
Wordle with Teeth: U of Quebec’s Vocab Profiler | Beyond School
Interesting article about on-line tools for checking vocabulary levels of readings. Could be useful for our ELP Reader.
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