Archives Alive!: librarian-faculty collaboration and an alternative to the five-page paper

In brief: The short research paper is ubiquitous in undergraduate liberal arts education. But is this assignment type an effective way to assess student learning or writing skills? We argue that it rarely is, and instead serves as an artifact maintained out of instructor familiarity with and unneces...

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Main Authors: Tom Keegan, Kelly McElroy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: In the Library with the Lead Pipe 2015-08-01
Series:In the Library with the Lead Pipe
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Online Access:http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/archives-alive-librarian-faculty-collaboration-and-an-alternative-to-the-five-page-paper/