Dear All
Students commonly say that they 'know what they want to say, but can't seem to get their thoughts down onto paper'. One of my colleagues (from History) has now approached me about tackling this issue with relationship to academic essay writing and I was wondering what your immediate reply to him would be?
For what it's worth, my initial reply was this: 'I'm quite into the idea of harnessing the students orality and turning it into writing at the moment it happens via writing activities embedded in lectures/seminars. All sorts of things happen to students at the moment of writing which are often better dealt with in the classroom (I think). If you've time, have a quick look at the following project which exploits the notion of embedding writing in the subjects: http://www.thinkingwriting.qmul.ac.uk/index.htm <https://owa2k.ntu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.thinkingwriting.qmul.ac.uk/index.htm> '
What do you think? Given that we probably aren't talking about a complete overhaul of a course (yet), does anybody have any suggestions? He is familiar with prewriting techniques, but I think he might be interested in some targetted writing exercises to supplement them. I'd appreciate your suggestions in this regard, or general thoughts on how you would respond to such a request.
Yours
Lisa
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