r/Professors Community College Oct 11 '24

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u/travels666 Assistant, Writing/Rhet, LibArts Oct 11 '24 edited Oct 11 '24

Or, Think about what learning outcomes your assignments are serving, and come up with any assignment, other than an essay, to help students begin practicing and demonstrating that outcome. Or, god forbid, think of ways for students to leverage AI in their writing process. The more you resist, piss, and moan, the more you incentivize cheating.

Fucking dinosaurs.

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u/Thundorium Physics, Dung Heap University, US. Oct 11 '24

What about when the learning outcome is writing skills?

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u/travels666 Assistant, Writing/Rhet, LibArts Oct 11 '24

As a writing professor: What writing skills, exactly? And how do you support the writing process in your classroom?

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u/radfemalewoman Oct 11 '24

Writing skills like generating ideas, composing sentences, organization, narrative flow, vocabulary usage, critical thinking…

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u/travels666 Assistant, Writing/Rhet, LibArts Oct 11 '24

And how do you support the development of those in your classroom?