Post by selfe2 on Oct 18, 2012 9:24:15 GMT -5
Most valuable from this paper:
Joe Harris talks about the uses of student texts in professional articles and suggests that such texts are generally used only as examples and only occasionally as generative and central foci of exploration.
A response and challenge:
One way to encourage the serious and deep exploration of student texts is to make an archive of them available to the entire profession so we can re-visit and reexamine such texts not simply once, but several times.
I’d like to see such archives be of the 2.0 variety (controlled primarily by users), rather than the conventional variety (controlled by professionals), so that the kind of polyphony for which Joe Harris calls can be more easily accommodated, and so that students themselves can participate in the explorations that drive and motivate our field.
Importantly, a 2.0 archive could encourage students to speak for themselves about their writing (to post material and to comment on it), rather than limiting such commentary to faculty to post material and to comment on it.
Joe Harris talks about the uses of student texts in professional articles and suggests that such texts are generally used only as examples and only occasionally as generative and central foci of exploration.
A response and challenge:
One way to encourage the serious and deep exploration of student texts is to make an archive of them available to the entire profession so we can re-visit and reexamine such texts not simply once, but several times.
I’d like to see such archives be of the 2.0 variety (controlled primarily by users), rather than the conventional variety (controlled by professionals), so that the kind of polyphony for which Joe Harris calls can be more easily accommodated, and so that students themselves can participate in the explorations that drive and motivate our field.
Importantly, a 2.0 archive could encourage students to speak for themselves about their writing (to post material and to comment on it), rather than limiting such commentary to faculty to post material and to comment on it.