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This web page is especially devoted to providing WISR students
with suggestions and tips that may help them with their learning
at WISR. Others may also find learning suggestions here that will
be helpful to them. WISR's approach is to help adult learners use
strategies that are effective and meaningful and that can be incorporated
into the flow of one's everyday life.
Long-time WISR faculty members, Cynthia Lawrence and John Bilorusky,
have written the following list of themes that help to characterize
some of the learning approaches commonly used at WISR:
Writing Papers: for WISR and for Work in the
Community
.At a June 2006 phone seminar, WISR core faculty, Drs. Cynthia
Lawrence and John Bilorusky suggested a number of strategies for
generating writing, especially writing that helps one to tap into
and express one's own knowledge-notes of ideas, descriptions of
experiences, rough drafts for papers, and more.
The following two-page article was written by Cynthia and John
specifically as a learning aid for that seminar and for students
unable to participate in the seminar.
For those interested in learning more about suggestions
and approaches for writing, they are referred to the following other
articles written by various WISR faculty:
Action-Research:
Writing in Your Own Voice (doc) (a Discussion Paper written
by Cynthia Lawrence Wallace for a 2003 action-research seminar at
WISR)
Action-Research:
Writing in Your Own Voice (pdf)
Action-Research:
Writing in Your Own Voice (html)
Writing
Workshop Recap (doc) (an outline of points discussed in a seminar
at WISR led by Cynthia Lawrence on February 26, 1985)
Writing
Workshop Recap (pdf)
Communicating
What We Know To Others (doc) (a Discussion Paper written by
Terry Lunsford and John Bilorusky for a seminar on May 7, 1981,
as part of WISR's US Department of Education, FIPSE-funded action-research
project)
Communicating
What We Know To Others (pdf)
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A recent BA graduate, Jill Arrington, shared these learning tips in her
end-of-program evaluation:
I now know the challenges I have before me as I transition to the
M.A. program and some of the lessons I have learned below are:
1.) I am not through writing, even when I think I am.
2.) I can always stop and start over.
3.) I can take a break without condemnation.
4.) I can ask for help along the way.
5.) I can write in my own voice and it can still be a powerful
paper full of meaning.
6.) My writing doesn't have to be "perfect", just clear.
7.) Organize my thoughts on paper before I start writing.
8.) The quality of my paper is not based on the amount of pages.
9.) It is okay to shorten or break down a quote using my own words.
10.) I don't have to read the whole book, just know the important
parts.
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