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...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...
...students learn through a continual dialogue, assigning a term paper due after the end of the course gives the student no chance to learn from graders' comments. In large lecture courses, these comments take the place of frequent personal communication as the only means for the teacher to maintain his end of the dialogue. The student can learn nothing of immediate usefulness from the grader's comments on his term paper, since he gets his paper back only after the course is over. If it is true that improvement requires continuing personal instruction and correction, how can such a system...
Periodic writing assignments, supplemented by intelligent and detailed criticism of each piece, serve to maintain student engagement in the material of the course while it is going on. Frequent short papers give the student an opportunity to hit his stride, and early grades are often discounted when his record shows improvement. The stress here is on improvement, on education, not on testing, as with the single term paper. Knowing that each paper will not count so heavily in terms of a grade, the student is encouraged to write more daringly and imaginatively. He has the chance, also, to purge...
...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 and intimations into real knowledge...
Judged by the attention they pay him, 17-year-old Dick Joyce's best friends are big-league baseball scouts. They send Christmas cards and frequent, familiar letters. They take his family to dinner. They rarely miss a chance to watch him play ball: 15 were in the stands when the strapping (6 ft. 5 in., 210 Ibs.) Portland, Me., fastballer pitched Cheverus Classical High School to a 2-1 victory over Portland High earlier this year. Like fond relations, they were on hand with gifts for Dick's graduation last June. The Boston Red Sox presented...