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Forums and Prewiting
by Michael Goeller
The forum can work well as a venue for prewriting exercises precisely
because students can exchange ideas, and receive feedback that can
be revisited throughout the drafting process. Since papers are constructed
one paragraph at a time, I like to require students to post potential
paragraphs for drafts they are working on, complete with textual
evidence.
- When working with one reading, I ask students to create posts
that includes two different passages in the reading and to discuss
the relationship between those passages.
- When working with more than one reading, I ask students to post
a writing sample that brings together a specific moment from each
of those readings.
Each of these forum posts can be linked to an assignment that requires
students to visit their peers' prewriting posts and comment on the
relationships under discussion.
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