Monthly Archives: December 2011

Reading and Writing Skills

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Final Exam Prep: Summarizing The Paper Chase

What is the role of the student? The teacher? This short excerpt from the film The Paper Chase (Dir. James Bridges 1973) illustrates the Socratic Method of questioning students to get them to think critically. But it can be painful. … Continue reading

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Two Student Samples

Sample One: The First Page–can we do better? First Page-studentsample research Sample Two: This is an excellent student example, but note that the works cited page is not annotated. StudentSampleResearchPaper  

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