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03-13-2008
07:35 AM
For first-year students in particular, you might find it effective to have them review at least one peer’s paper at home. Students still in transition from high school are used to thinking of class work as “busy work” and homework as “important work.” I combine these two by having them review one or two papers in class but also one at home, emailing comments to the paper’s author.
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About the Author
Barclay Barrios is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs at Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches freshman composition and graduate courses in composition methodology and theory, rhetorics of the world wide web, and composing digital identities. He was Director of Instructional Technology at Rutgers University and currently serves on the board of Pedagogy. Barrios is a frequent presenter at professional conferences, and the author of Emerging.
