Using Daedalus Interchange and New Daedalus Write To Teach Audience Awareness, Revision Techniques, and Textual Interpretation in a First-Year Writing Course on Contemporary Legal Issues [microform] / Lynne Spigelmire Viti
- Bib ID:
- 5585665
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Viti, Lynne Spigelmire
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED385847
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1995
- 28 p.
- Summary:
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Writing 125 is a 13-week course that all first-year students at Wellesley College (Massachusetts) are required to take. One instructor teaches a section of it called "Law in Contemporary Society" which centers writing and reading activities around legal issues, namely "Roe v. Wade" and "Webster v. Cruzan." As an essential part of the class, students routinely meet in groups of 3 to read and edit each other's first versions of formal writing assignments. After they turn in their essays, the class as a whole then critique anonymous student papers, pointing out strengths and weaknesses. As part of this process, they spend the last 20 minutes of class on New Daedalus Write (the word processing component of the Daedalus software program). The instructor also requires students to write exchanges on the Daedalus word processing program after particularly difficult reading assignments. Integrating technology, particularly a mix of e-mail (for distributing homework assignments, etc.) and programs like Daedalus that facilitate exchange between students, enriches the writing classroom and maximizes the instructor's time and energy. (Contains 23 pages of classroom materials and excerpts from classroom computer communications, including a class assignment, a student's book review and her peers' edits and suggestions; another class assignment and 2 students' responses to it; and transcripts of 2 class exchanges on the Daedalus interchange.) (TB)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (46th, Washington, DC, March 23-25, 1995).
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- Publication date:
- 1995
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