The Role of the Area Seminar in Graduate Education. Response to

Maurer, Suzanne B.

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ERIC Number: EJ633778

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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The Role of the Area Seminar in Graduate Education. Response to "Rethinking the Graduate Seminar."

Maurer, Suzanne B.

Teaching Sociology, v27 n2 p174-79 Apr 1999

Responds to the article "Rethinking the Graduate Seminar." Argues that the two key assumptions of the article are not grounded in empirical realities that attend higher education in the 1990s. Discusses the use of student-to-student writing critiques in the graduate seminar to facilitate student growth. (CMK)

Descriptors: Course Content, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation, Persuasive Discourse, Role of Education, Seminars, Sociology, Student Improvement, Writing (Composition)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Note: For "Rethinking the Graduate Seminar," see SO 534 041.