The Guide to Teaching

Using Newspapers in the Classroom

Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 09:04:10 -0500
From: Bob Trudeau <rtrudeau@providence.edu>

I, and a couple of other colleagues here at Providence, do integrate
newspapers. In my case, a subscription to the New York Times is required
-- although the web version is acceptable. I ask students to clip or print
out one article from each day, M to F, hand those in in folders, from which
I pick one article and ask for short essays integrating the article with
the texts and class materials. Typically, a student writes three such
essays during a semester.

People wishing more details about this assignment may surf to a syllabus at:

http://www.providence.edu/polisci/trudeau/201-s96.htm

(The New York Times assignment is about 40% down in this unfortunately
long "page")

Feedback more than welcome!!!
Bob

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