Ghosts from the Past: The Teaching of Goals.

Patterson, John

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ERIC Number: EJ332969

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1986

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Ghosts from the Past: The Teaching of Goals.

Patterson, John

Teaching English in the Two-Year College, v13 n2 p135-36 May 1986

Describes a course in which technical writing students write letters to themselves stating goals they want to accomplish within the next 10 years, which the teacher promises not to read and to mail to them in exactly 10 years. Discusses purposes and actual results of assignment. (EL)

Descriptors: Course Content, Education Work Relationship, Letters (Correspondence), Objectives, Teaching Methods, Technical Writing

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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