A Book List and a "Common Text": Redeeming a Good Idea Gone Wrong.

McLaughlin, Marilou B.

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Publication Date: 1986

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A Book List and a "Common Text": Redeeming a Good Idea Gone Wrong.

McLaughlin, Marilou B.

College Teaching, v34 n4 p150-54 Fall 1986

A program is described that set out to improve/enlarge the reading background of entering students by asking them to read 5-10 specific books before coming to college, featuring one book each year as the "common text," and providing a number of special seminars and activities based on that text. (MLW)

Descriptors: Books, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Core Curriculum, Expectation, General Education, Higher Education, Literature, Prior Learning, Reading, Reading Assignments, Student Attitudes, Surveys, Teacher Attitudes

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