Beloit College Mindset List: Born when Ross Perot was warning about a giant sucking sound and Bill Clinton was apologizing for pain in his marriage, members of this fall’s entering college class of 2014 have emerged as a post-email generation for whom the digital world is routine and technology is just too slow. [more]
What I Did on my Summer Vacation …A writing sample is a great way to learn a little something about your students both as people and as writers. The much-maligned "What I Did on my Summer Vacation" is actually a pretty good topic if students can narrow it down to just one incident (and stop thinking, "But I didn't do ANYTHING!"). For the student who is completely stuck, here are some other sources of writing prompts:
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