"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 9:19 AM -0500 wrote: >An English paper >often analyzes a piece of literature. The evidence is based on perhaps >set literary conventions/terms. A history paper, however, does >something different. A history paper might take documents that need to >be synthesized to prove a thesis. This may or may not involve >analysis.
Hi! That's fascinating. So I wonder if part of the pre-writing process could/should include an examination (perhaps using Bloom's Taxonomy) of what kind of thought processes are being used to answer a question? Another distinction that our English Department Chair thought of was that most English papers deal with art, whereas most History papers deal with fact - fortunately, we didn't get sidetracked by the whole "does art imitate life?" question. Take care, Bill Ivey Stoneleigh-Burnham School _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
