The Teaching Professor Blog

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Fun way to find themes in writing

Have you ever seen a student paper loose focus?  Some students can write from an outline, but others just cannot seem to find the organization.  One creative tool that you can use is Wordle found at http://www.wordle.net/create.  I wrote a short manuscript about patient teaching and pasted the content into Wordle...Look below at the content I created using this tool.   I can easily see the main concepts in the paper.  Give it a try. I would love to hear how the tool works for your students.