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为什么电子邮件是教写作的完美方式
Why Email Is The Perfect Way To Teach Writing
导读
大西洋月刊介绍一位写作课教授用电子邮件来教写作:让学生在写作过程中通过邮件与他反复交流,他把这种做法称为包含"主动寻找改进方法、即时反馈、结构、专家监督"的练习。对写作者的价值在于,它说明写作能力靠的是过程性的、一对一的、具体的反馈,而不是规则清单或软件评分。
可以直接用的写作要点
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把写作当成一段可以被人看见的过程:把草稿、修改、犹豫都暴露给读者或导师,比只交成品更能进步。
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争取即时而具体的反馈:与其等别人给一个总分,不如让对方针对某一段、某一句说出"哪里不清楚、为什么"。
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好反馈无法被规则或软件替代,它需要批注者投入大量时间;写作教学的成本主要在这份人力上。
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在写作早期就标出引用的来源和思路,既能避免抄袭,也能让指导者顺着你的写作轨迹给出帮助。
HN 评论精选
邮件往返让教授看见写作过程,既是最好的反抄袭机制,也是最有效的引用与修改指导。
这位教授是我希望在自己英语课上遇到的那种老师:态度积极、愿意为学生调整方法并下苦功,这在大学课堂里很少见。顺便说,这也是对付抄袭这一老问题的好办法:如果课程本来就要求你在写作业时通过邮件和教授交流,抄袭就不可能发生,因为教授能直接看到你文章一点点成形,了解你写作过程的每一部分。如果教授一开始就这样引导,而不是事后用 TurnItIn 查重再对着后果叹气,多少学生能被教会正确引用和复用资料。我完全赞同这种更有互动性的写作教学。我还在想,他会不会愿意让学生用 Google Docs 分享未完成的稿子,这样他几乎能站在学生身后看他们打字并随时评论——不过那会不会太过头了?
pak查看英文原文
This guy is a professor I would have loved to have for one of my English classes. His positive attitude and willingness to adapt and work hard for his students is just remarkable and rarely seen in a college classroom. By the way, this is a great solution to the much-discussed (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2774254) problem of effectively dealing with plagiarism: imagine if it were expected, as part of your class, that you engaged your professor via email while writing assignments. There would be no way to plagiarize, because the professor would have direct insight into each part of your writing process as he saw bits of your essay fall into place. Imagine all the students that could be guided to correctly cite and re-use sources if their professor had just headed it off at the pass instead of running it through TurnItIn and groaning at the fallout. I couldn't agree more with the benefits of this dynamic, more interactive teaching method for writing. It also makes me wonder if he would be interested in having students share their works-in-progress via Google Docs--he would be able to essentially peer over their shoulder as they type and comment. Or would that be going too far?
高质量写作反馈极其耗费人力,且无法被规则化或软件化。
如果我读文章没读错的话,这里说的是 15 到 20 个实打实的工作日用来做邮件批注。这是非常大的工作量,这位先生确实很拼。对写作的反馈无法简化成规则或用例,所以我不认为能做出软件方案——不过欢迎有人来纠正我。
keithpeter查看英文原文
If I have read the article correctly, we are looking at 15 to 20 solid working days of e-mail annotation. That is a LOT. This gentleman is working hard. Feedback on writing is not reducible to rules or use cases, so I don't think a software solution is possible but I stand to be corrected.
科研发表压力挤压教学投入,正是这种费力的写作教学难以推广的原因。
我真不希望年轻教授不得不把精力更多放在发表上,而不是真正放在教学上。
cdcarter查看英文原文
I wish it weren't so that younger professors have to focus more on publishing than they do on actually teaching.
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