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My résumé has said since 2003 that I’m just a thesis shy of a master’s degree in mass communication. It doesn’t mention my vow to never finish the degree. That vow is the friendly elephant who has followed me everywhere for nearly a decade. The cute guy costs me $167 a month to feed. (I […]
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This plan for a freshman-level college writing course can be adapted for almost any grade level. Its core component is something that schools need to do more: students must interact with “real” people to write articles that could very well end up published. Too much writing in school today is done solely for the eyes of a teacher.
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This paper discusses an important, but little recognized, problem in American schools: media literacy is not very prevalent. Results of this paper’s survey should be, at least somewhat, alarming.