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...fails and apathy sets in when this dialogue breaks down. Why copy down the lecturer's critical responses to "The Wasteland" before you have read the poem, before you have your own responses to measure his against? And of what satisfaction to the teacher is addressing passive spectators? Reuben Brower, professor of English, complains: "I can't stand lecturing about things people aren't engaged...
...Brower's course papers are shorter, and assigned at frequent intervals during the term -- thus fostering student involvement in the issues of the course, at the time that the material is being considered in lectures, rather than during reading period or exam period. When the student is given incentives to read and write about what his professor is discussing in lecture, there is a renewal of the dialogue...
...most important pedagogical device in my course." His section men, Michael Tanzer and Norman Pollack agree, stressing the improvement over the course of the term of their students' ability to present a coherent argument, to marshal facts to support it, to organize effectively, and to express themselves clearly. Reuben Brower assigns four or five papers in his English 162, as does Robert P. Wolff in Social Sciences 140. Richard Poirier, in his courses on American and English litera- ture, is another who gives frequent paper assignments, believing the act of writing to be the most important way of transforming feelings...
...most important pedagogical device in my course." His section men, Michael Tanzer and Norman Pollack agree, stressing the improvement over the course of the term of their students' ability to present a coherent argument, to marshal facts to support it, to organize effectively, and to express themselves clearly. Reuben Brower assigns four or five papers in his English 162, as does Robert P. Wolff in Social Sciences 140. Richard Poirier, in his courses on American and English literature, is another who gives frequent paper assignments, believing the act of writing to be the most important way of transforming feelings...
...Brower's courses papers are shorter, and assigned at frequent intervals during the term-- thus fostering student involvement in the issues of the course, at the time that the material is being considered in lectures, rather than during reading period or exam period. When the student is given incentives to read and write about what his professor is discussing in lecture, there is a renewal of the dialogue...