May 8, 2011

Tactics for Teaching (Almost) Paperless Writing

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James Yang for The Chronicle

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James Yang for The Chronicle

By A.J. Ferguson

Those of you who teach three, four, or more writing courses each semester know the joy of hauling papers from the classroom to your office, where you attempt to bring order to awkward syntax and cast light on nascent arguments. This past semester I decided to embrace technology, erase the physical burden, and determine if a more environmentally friendly way of teaching was viable: I went digital.

I refused to accept any paper assignments from my students, and aside from the paper