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An Introduction to WAC

More detail on interpretive questions

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Students often need more focused questions to begin working on the right-hand side--the evaluative, reflective, or metacognitive side:

  • Why are certain details more memorable?
  • What connections can you make between X and Y?
  • How did you arrive at this conclusion?
  • Why is this conclusion significant?
  • How does this assignment touch you personally?
  • How does this assignment change your thinking on the idea?
  • How could you write about your new insight?
  • What other information might you need to pursue this topic?
  • How does this reading/writing/discussion/group work build on our earlier discussion of the larger concept of X?
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