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Form versus content: classroom practices and essay requirements.
Abstract
I discuss the overemphasis of "structure" in college freshman composition courses. By structure I not only mean the specific form of the writing itself, but also the specific requirements of the class.
In graduate school I taught two sections of freshman composition. One afternoon as I sat in my office working my way through a stack of students' papers, in walked a fellow grad student and teacher.
She sighed. "I can't keep track of everything in the classes I teach. I called one of my students to see why she's missed so much class, and she told me ..."
I said, "You called one of your students to talk about her attendance?"
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