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Foster, Drew – Teaching Sociology, 2015
This article isolates and observes the impact of peer readership on low-stakes reflective writing assignments in two large Introduction to Sociology classes. Through a comparative content analysis of over 2,000 private reflective journal entries and semipublic reflective blog posts, I find that both practices produce distinct forms of reflection.…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Journal Writing, Peer Influence
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Burdette, Amy M.; McLoughlin, Kerry – Teaching Sociology, 2010
One useful, but underutilized, strategy to increase quantitative literacy and promote critical sociological thinking is to have students investigate demographic trends in their local community. In this article, the authors describe a project in which students compare and contrast the demographic characteristics of two counties in their state using…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Numeracy, Counties, Social Influences