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| Welcome to Writing Lab |
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| Academic Honesty, Continued by Mathilda Liberman |
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| In this article, originally published in September 1993, Mathilda Liberman, Director of the Writing Lab at Grinnell College, considers the writing challenges that may lead students to violate the rules of academic honesty unwittingly. In particular, she examines the difficulty of paraphrasing. |
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| New Approach to Academic Honesty by Helen Scott |
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| This October 1994 article by Helen Scott, Associate Dean of the Faculty at Grinnell College, explains the college's then newly-established approach to academic honesty, an approach which includes a mandatory lecture on the subject to all new students and a required individual exercise to demonstrate students' understanding of the issue. |
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| Confessions of an Academic Honesty Lady by Judy Hunter |
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| This May 1997 article by Judy Hunter, Assistant in the Writing Lab, examines the societal trends which make teaching about academic honesty so difficult and so important. |
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| Karin Connelly on Who Uses What |
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| In October 1992, Karin Connelly, Assistant in the Writing Lab, investigated what citation formats various departments at Grinnell required of students. She comments here on the results of her research. |
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| Dobbs Tries Innovative Approach by Judy Hunter |
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| This article, published in the very first Writing Forum in April of 1992, describes how Elizabeth Dobbs, Professor of English, integrates the work of the Writing Lab with her classroom procedures for teaching students to write. |
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| Brown Describes Weekly Writings, Workshops by Victoria Brown |
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| In this September 1992 article, Victoria Brown, Professor of History at Grinnell, describes how she uses weekly writings and peer review to teach writing in her courses. |
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| Dear Faculty . . . or Writing Letters to Learn by Judy Hunter |
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| In this article published in May of 1995, Judy Hunter, Assistant in the Writing Lab, uses a letter format to suggest how writing letters may help students learn. The article was inspired by a workshop presented by Toby Fulwiler at the Winter Workshop of the Conference on College Composition and Communication in January of 1995. |
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| A Day in the Life of the Writing Lab by the Writing Lab Staff |
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| In this article, published in October of 1995, each of the instructors in the Grinnell College Writing Lab (Kevin Crim, Karin Connelly, Judy Hunter, Mathilda Liberman, and Betty Moffett) describes his or her work during one day in the lab. This article drew more comment from the college community than any other ever published in the Writing Forum. |
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| The Writing Lab and the New Professor by Jared Gardner |
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| This December 1995 article describes the interaction between Gardner, at that time a relatively new member of the English Department, and the staff of the Writing Lab. |
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| A Writing Experiment with E-papers and E-mail by Chris Hunter |
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| In this October 1996 article, Professor of Sociology Chris Hunter discusses an experiment he tried in a 200-level sociology course: students submitted papers by e-mail and class members offered feedback on their peers' papers, again through electronic means. |
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| Interview with Sylvia Thorson-Smith by Judy Hunter |
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| In this interview with Assistant in the Writing Lab Judy Hunter, Sylvia Thorson-Smith, Lecturer in Religious Studies and Sociology, explains how her writing assignments are closely related to the goals of her feminist pedagogy. |
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| Using a learning portfolio in an upper level course by Judy Hunter |
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| This November 1997 article describes the portfolio system used by Professor of Sociology Kent McClelland in several upper level courses. |
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| A Day in the Life of the Writing Lab,1999 |
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| A reprise of the 1995 article, this one is, authored by some new and some continuing Writing Lab staff members. They describe the face-to-face interaction that comprises the work of the Writing Lab at Grinnell College. |
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| Question by Don Smith |
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| In this short piece published in April of 1992, Professor of History Don Smith asks for a response to the notion that the college formally adopt Corbett's Little English Handbook as a standard text. |
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| Should We Adopt Corbett? by Judy Hunter |
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| This article responds to Smith's Question by quoting the description offered by John Stone, Lecturer in Mathematics and Computer Science, of how members of a faculty writing seminar reacted to the idea of using Corbett's set of correction symbols. |
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| What to call this? |
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| Members of the Writing Lab Staff respond to a professor's question about what to call a particular error in student writing. |
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| A Point of Grammar/A Point of Rhetoric by Don Smith |
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| Don Smith, Professor History at Grinnell College, examines a common problem in student writing, an error that is part grammatical and part rhetorical. |
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| Grinnell College Writing Lab Guide to the Use of Verb Tenses in Academic Writing by Kevin Crim, Assistant in the Writing Lab and Lecturer |
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| Kevin Crim offers a handout that explains how to decide which verb tense to use in various kinds of academic discourse. |
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| Teaching Writing Through Syntax by Elizabeth Dobbs |
| In an article published in December 1997, Professor of English Elizabeth Dobbs describes how she teaches writing by emphasizing relationships between words, sentences, and ideas with Dr. Syntax. |
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| Use of the Writing Lab by Mathilda Liberman |
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| In this article, published in the first issue of the Writing Forum, Mathilda Liberman, Director of the Grinnell College Writing Lab, describes ways in which faculty can make use of the resources of the Writing Lab. |
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| Peter Connelly on Faculty Writing Seminars |
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| In this article published in October of 1992, Professor of English Peter Connelly describes his view of the history of the writing program at Grinnell, particularly of the faculty writing seminars which have been in place since the early 1970's. |
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| Opportunities for Student Writing in Statistics Courses by Tom Moore |
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| In this November 1992 article, Tom Moore, Associate Professor of Mathematics, describes how students in statistics courses use writing as a tool for learning. |
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