Comments on: Google bans essay ads http://www.itwriting.com/blog/226-google-bans-essay-ads.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:28:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Charles http://www.itwriting.com/blog/226-google-bans-essay-ads.html/comment-page-1#comment-17240 Charles Fri, 25 May 2007 13:09:15 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=226#comment-17240 Maybe we should roll with the punches - perhaps tutors should set work which goes "find three essays on the topic of the Franco-Prussian-Hungarian wars, and identify three sources they have in common, and two urban myths that they introduce wrongly." It would make it meta-studying, but that seems to be what those courses which don't submit well to exams (the arts ones, principally) are doing anyway - go and read books in a library and then resplurge it. Maybe we should roll with the punches – perhaps tutors should set work which goes “find three essays on the topic of the Franco-Prussian-Hungarian wars, and identify three sources they have in common, and two urban myths that they introduce wrongly.”

It would make it meta-studying, but that seems to be what those courses which don’t submit well to exams (the arts ones, principally) are doing anyway – go and read books in a library and then resplurge it.

]]> By: Clyde Davies http://www.itwriting.com/blog/226-google-bans-essay-ads.html/comment-page-1#comment-16868 Clyde Davies Tue, 22 May 2007 19:36:24 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=226#comment-16868 <blockquote>Perhaps it is time to change the way students are assessed.</blockquote> Isn't this why they introduced <i>examinations</i> in the first place? Now they're not very fashionable.

Perhaps it is time to change the way students are assessed.

Isn’t this why they introduced examinations in the first place? Now they’re not very fashionable.

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