Scenario: After reading an opinion piece in the New York Times about teaching shorter, more Internet-based forms in writing classes (http://nyti.ms/QjKZod), your writing teacher has started considering revamping your writing class to focus only on short writing forms like Tweets, text messages, online product reviews, and emails. This wouldn’t necessarily mean that your writing class would require less total writing, but that much of the writing would be shorter and more frequent. Your teacher is interested in creating a class that is educationally valuable to you and your classmates, and s/he also wants to make sure that any writing class s/he teaches is consistent with Central Methodist University’s mission (http://bit.ly/O5zoe3) and with university expectations for writing classes (http://bit.ly/QjLtuo, pages 53-54).
Your instructor has asked all of his/her students to weigh in on the issue. Knowing that your instructor is an academic who values expert opinions and credible, reliable information, it is important that your argument is supported by a sufficient number of quality research sources.
Essay question: Should your writing instructor teach only shorter forms of writing in your writing class?
