Word: skilling
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...that's required of all first-year students, the only formal preparation undergraduates receive for the writing they'll do in the coming four years and beyond. A liberal arts setting requires intensive writing; Expos is the University's sole compulsory class with the expressed purpose of teaching that skill...
When Professor of Education Richard J. Light interviewed hundreds of students in an exhaustive survey on teaching at Harvard, he found that undergraduates wanted to learn one skill more than any other: writing...
...single most fundamental academic skill," says Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell, the person charged with overseeing every aspect of an undergraduate's educational experience...
...says Stanford Associate Professor of Art Michael J. Merriman, teaching a writing-intensive class is "both instructive and eye-opening" for professors more used to expounding on a topic than teaching a skill...
Worse than its effect on teachers' lives may bethe rule's impact on student learning.Teachers--including Harvey, the seniorpreceptor--argue that because the skill ofteaching writing is difficult to learn, manyinstructors have to leave just as they are hittingtheir stride in the classroom...