This seems like it would be particularly difficult to accomplish in a
society where most people, including Freshmen, believe nothing they do
will really make a difference. And in case they don't feel that way
yet, we begin by teaching them to question every thing they read, not
failing to consider the author's motives; we teach them that no one
writes just to be writing, that everyone who writes has a purpose: figure
out what it is. After that, it's going to be difficult to persuade them
to write just because they have something important or unique to say.
http://www.missouri.edu/~c557506/index.htl
University of Missouri at Columbia (English)
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...I felt like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific--and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise__
Silent, upon a peak in Darien. -Jn Keats
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