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Student transfer of general education English skills to a social work diversity course: is it happening?

Journal of the Idaho Academy of Science

| December 01, 2008 | Hooper, Richard I.; Butler, Shannon | COPYRIGHT 2008 Idaho Academy of Science. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

ABSTRACT

Undergraduate social work students (N = 21) at a mid-sized western U.S. teaching institution apparently did not significantly transfer skills learned in general English composition courses to writing assignments required in a social work writing-intensive, general education diversity course. Students' final grades from their general education composition courses (English 1010 and 2010) were compared to grades given to their social work papers by an English professor using a rubric developed to measure the ten composition goals of the general education writing competency. Despite a rubric and extensive written feedback from the social work professor on ...

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