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Responses from Session
We want to devote a substantial part of today’s session to an activity that invites you all to contribute to CompFAQs. Group work on a CompFAQs page (about 4 per group). 20 minutes: 10 minutes to brainstorm with the group, 10 minutes for groups to report.
Take an undeveloped FAQ and brainstorm. Use one the the questions below, or a new one. You can think of ways to expand the page, or create a template for the page, with headings / prompts that folks can “fill in” to contribute to the FAQ.
- What is the most effective way of leading or renewing a WAC initiative on campus?
- What are the arguments for requiring one comp course in the first year and another in the 3rd, instead of 2 courses in the first year?
- What are the most effective methods of program assessment for a writing program?
- What is the empirical evidence that Comp 101 is working?
- How are SAT or ACT results used to determine placement? What is the value of the writing portions of these tests?
- What is the evidence that teaching of grammar will improve the writing of students?
- Should literature be used in the composition classroom? If so, how? If not, why?
- How are students doing research now, in the age of the internet?
- What curricular designs are available for FY writing programs?
- How effective is peer critique?
- What should be the role of the five-paragraph essay in writing courses?
- What is the best arrangement for computer classrooms?
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