The typical approach to the research paper -- the generic term for pretty much all academic writing -- is to assign it as a summative assessment at the end of the semester. Faculty members normally ...

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I’ve only been teaching for 41 years, so I haven’t quite figured this out. (But it's not that bad—I’ve only been assigning short papers, like my POT [“Proof of Thinking”] papers for about 20 years.) I ...

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Selecting required readings for a course is a universal challenge. Every semester, social media lights up with discussions about the struggle to include all desired texts in your syllabus or where to ...