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Sunday, May 07, 2006
Wikis help teachers and students connect online - Sharita Forrest, Inside Illinois
While public speaking is said to be most people’s number one fear, writing, at least for some people, can be equally disconcerting. Joe Grohens, a lecturer in the department of English, said that many of the engineering, business and computer science students who take his business and technical writing class are comfortable crunching numbers, but find stringing words together to be daunting. “These students all have huge writing apprehension,” Grohens said. “They’ve been told they can’t write. They’re good at math, but they don’t have many writing assignments. I want them to start feeling more confident in their writing.” And Grohens has found a way to encourage students to write – and write well – by using a wiki (rhymes with “tricky”). A Hawaiian word for “quick,” wiki is defined as a Web site that permits visitors to edit the pages and that encourages collaborative writing and editing.
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