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Lanier-Nabors, Benjamin G. – Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2003
Describes a writing course that utilizes service-learning to help student explore ethical issues. Finds that the course increased students' interest in writing, that the students enjoyed the thematic focus of the course, and that the service learning environment contributed to students' comfort with otherwise difficult course materials and…
Descriptors: Colleges, Ethics, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
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Russell, Alison – Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2003
Describes an instructor's analysis of students' responses to an assignment to describe the events of September 11, 2001 for a visual and media literacy course. Discusses the impact of media reports on students' perceptions of those events, and the inability of most students to critically analyze the situation because of the absence of personal…
Descriptors: Colleges, Higher Education, Instruction, Journalism
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Kiefer, Kate – Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2003
Argues that teachers in all disciplines can act as insiders in helping students to write more effectively within academic contexts. Teachers who write are even more effective because they bring expert knowledge of content and language from tacit to conscious awareness and engage themselves and their students in the teaching exchange. (Contains 13…
Descriptors: Colleges, Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Instruction