When Does a Lecture "Write" Your Student's Essay?

05/13/2014

When Does a Lecture "Write" Your Student's Essay?

Here's a teaching dilemma I face: If I'm teaching a unit on the connection between morality and happiness as evidenced in Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss and the writing assignment is to analyze that connection, how do I avoid lecturing on this connection? And by providing these connections, am I not simply writing my students' essays?

I find it difficult to analyze the assigned text without in effect "writing" the students' essays. Any solutions?

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