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The Brief
Reflect (write, draw, meditate) on the following questions for four minutes:
What is/was central to your college experience?
Do writing and grading have to be arduous?
How can non-traditional assignments challenge dominant race, class, & neurology? How can we engage a greater amount of skills, talents, and identities in the pursuit of creating and sharing knowledge?
How might you use zines (as primary and secondary sources or as creative projects) to show accomplishment in the Ways of Knowing shown in the graphic on this page?
What is the point?
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What are learning objectives for traditional research papers?
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Do traditional research papers uphold forms of dominance and oppression?
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What skills and talents might a zine highlight?
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Do we need to assign them for every class?
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Should learning be fun?
Bonus
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Is a zine made for a class a zine?
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Should zines be graded?
