Use personal letter-writing assignments in composition and literature classes because personal letters are expressive and intimate¶

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Description¶

The paper describes a strategy of assigning letter writing in college classes for nontraditional students, drawing on an instructor who has developed specific writing assignments for composition and literature classes. Its rationale is that "When personal, letters are expressive and intimate," and that letters are usually short, so the attention span required of students is not long. The paper presents this as viable practice rather than a tested intervention.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Letters must be personal for the expressive-and-intimate benefit to apply, per the cited instructor's observation.

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• intermediate students of Portuguese
• nontraditional college students

Target Learning Goals¶

• letter-writing composition skills
• reading comprehension in Portuguese

Related Strategies¶

• Reflection After Writing

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Aiex, Nola Kortner. (1997). The Image of New York City in the 1920s through the Eyes of the Brazilian Modernist Writer, Monteiro Lobato. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED403600