From Professor Mark Noonan:
Hi All:I want to begin a discussion of best practices in the writing classroom by referring to what Richard Miller is doing at Writer’s House at Rutgers featured in the following Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z65V2yKOXxM&feature=channel_page
The focus of this well-funded center is to help student writers learn about the authority of not just written texts but especially the sites and material they find on the WEB. It also hopes to allow students to practice working on multimedia projects, furthering their understanding of authority and engendering creativity as well. Ultimately, the center wants student writers to move from being mere analyzers of text to being creative producers of such material. The larger goal finally is to emphasize deliberation and to move society to one that deliberates much more thoughtfully on the issues that confront it. The question I have is: what kind of model for learning do we seek in our writing classes?
