Reading and Writing with Styles

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Reading and Writing with Styles

• Roland Nord
• COB Teaching Enhancement Committee
• April 4, 2003

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• Style is the dress of thoughts.
• Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

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• A style is a set of formatting characteristics
  that you can apply to text, tables, and lists in
  your document to quickly change their appearance.
  When you apply a style, you apply a whole group
  of formats in one simple task.
• Microsoft? Word 2002 Help

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• How use doth breed a habit in a man!
• William Shakespeare

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What reading and writing habits have our students
developed?
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What do students know about styles?
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Whats the connection between reading and writing?

• Recognition skills typically precede production
  skills
• Longitudinal study of student writing at
  Harvardclass of 2001 (Sommers, 2000)
• Interspersing questions into a text results in
  better recall comprehension than placing
  questions at the end of a text
• Protocol-aided Audience Modeling (PAM) (Schriver,
  1997)

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Has the WWW changed the way we read?

• Reading from screen is slower than reading from
  paper
• Reading from the web is different than reading
  from paper

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How do we help students become more effective
readers and writers?

• Encourage effective reading and writing habits
• Develop SOPs
• Recognize limitations, challenges, and
  opportunities for computer-assisted writing and
  research
• Recognize and facilitate their tasks
• Research and reading from the WWW
• Taking notes from presentations

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Questions?
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