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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Term Paper

The assault on higher education from within continues at the CHE. Luckily, this essay on "killing the term paper" is being trounced in the comments. Go there and join the discussion.

3 comments:

Clarissa said...

You forgot to post the link. And that might be a good idea because the last thing I need while in the midst of grading final papers in my courses is an article telling me how this is a practice that needs to go.

What are we supposed to assign instead of papers? Exams? "Projects"? PowerPoint presentations?

Clarissa said...

Thank you for the link!

The article is very very stupid.

Jonathan said...

See also Leslie Bary's insightful comment on the CHE post.