Summary 11/14

Teaching about rewriting is the name of this game. Lindeman says about how rewriting is a percived form punishment for writing a bad paper. The students are ether lazy, unsure, or beleive it tis the teacher's job to rewrite. The lazy part is self explanatory, but the unsure means that the student is not confident enough to make the paper better. The students see rewriting has a separate process than has a step IN the process. Also considering the abundance of work for the student rewriting is normally not stressed. Lindeman also went deep into the their own process of rewriting the one paragraph in the opening of the chapter. Lindeman also said about the styles of peer review. Another problem with writing Lindeman points out is inferior assignments. "Lard" is also talked about and how it loses the meaning of the sentence. Lindeman also proposes workshops has way to help the students to learn to rewrite properly. To help reinforce rewriting the idea of the students developing their own guidelines is proposed. The teacher is expected to nudge the student in the direction of general guidelines, but the teachers do not tell the students the guidelines.

Teachers never really taught rewriting. They just did rewriting. This means they would bloody up your paper; and tell you go away and fix. So, yes I believe students see rewriting has a form of punishment. I also experienced rewriting has a separate process. In that: you edit, turn in the paper, get a grade, and then rewrite it does seem like two different events. Also during school we would only rewrite major papers and not the smaller less important papers. The less important papers that deal with a stupid subject. For the peer review what Lindeman propose would work in a perfect little world where more that one student knows whats going on. For the whole "lard" section, Lindeman failed to mention the whole word count/ page length requirements. Workshops are fine but they lack the regularity of a class. Has for the student generated guideline, if they have no good solid experience with writing then coming up with their own guidelines maybe tough.