I'm speaking more about that whole 'create an analytic framework and just generally have a plan about what you're writing' thing. Undergrads rarely get it (even the brilliant ones) and its hard to explain to them what they're lacking (especially the brilliant ones).
For me, it was only after I had to struggle through someone else's flawed attempts at essay writing that I began to really understand what markers had been on about. And after that it was so simple. After I started marking H105 tuts in the first year of Hons, my average essay grades shot up 15% and stayed at their new level. Cue lightbulb, 'ding' sound, and all that.
Maybe the experience is a 'social sciences' one? Might one say, madame, that your own rarified and stratospheric discipline was wispier and less prone to such grubby, pedestrian, experiential learning? After all, you do walk the petal-strewn closes of literature while we poor serfs cut sod without. ;-)
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For me, it was only after I had to struggle through someone else's flawed attempts at essay writing that I began to really understand what markers had been on about. And after that it was so simple. After I started marking H105 tuts in the first year of Hons, my average essay grades shot up 15% and stayed at their new level. Cue lightbulb, 'ding' sound, and all that.
Maybe the experience is a 'social sciences' one? Might one say, madame, that your own rarified and stratospheric discipline was wispier and less prone to such grubby, pedestrian, experiential learning? After all, you do walk the petal-strewn closes of literature while we poor serfs cut sod without. ;-)