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mysocalledliteracylife.com mysocalledliteracylife.com
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Frank Levy and Richard Murnane
This is also important. By citing who Warschauer cites Shawna traces the perspectives and bias in the piece.
Once again this is done succinctly with a predicatable text structure requiring minimal inferences on part of the reader.
Plus its done in a way that doesn't make you want to pull your eyes out from boredom. That is the real hard part.
Concise Creativity
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In his book Learning in the Cloud: How (and Why) to transform Schools with Digital Media, Mark Warschauer, a professor of Education and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, writes of the need to teach “21st century skills” alongside content in schools; that the “separation” of these two in schools and classrooms is potentially harmful to our future global citizenry.
Examine Shawna's first sentence. She clearly indicates to the audience that this post will be anchored in a literature review.
More importantly Shawna is able to give the title, author, and a summary in once sentence.
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As I read the first few chapters of Warschauer’s book, I was reminded of what happened in my school when, two years ag
Shawna used a connection to a personal detail to support the claim that the debate between skills and knowledge plays out.
I do think Shawna should have taken a stance around this part of the post. I am interested in her voice. I want to know where she stands on the issue.
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However, as with any calls for “balance” in education, what is needed is not repeated proclamations for it (like obscenity, many of us fail to define it but claim that we “know it when [we] see it”), but a clear articulation of what it looks and sounds like in a classroom. For that, I’ll have to do some major reflecting and get back to you.
Shawna finished with her position statement. This is very common in literature review and literary analysis assignments.
- Intro (author, title, summary)
- Deep Summary
- This is what I believe
Except in blogging you may want to take a TLDR, or what we used to call, "top of the fold" make your position evident and early. Do not feel afraid to use call out boxes, blockquotes, etc to draw the readers attention.
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