To complete this assignment please mark up (using Word's "insert comments" function) your teammate's critique draft that was posted in the discussion area. (If your teammate did not submit a critique draft, choose another student's paper to mark up.) Then submit this marked up paper to this folder. Also, email a copy of this paper to the writer.

Exchanging feedback with a peer contributes in several ways to strengthening your writing skills, including the following:
You will benefit from being conscious of writing and revising to communicate your ideas to another reader.
You will receive constructive feedback from another person who is familiar with the expectations for this assignment. You will use your own judgment, of course, in deciding whether and how to implement the suggestions as you revise.
Your awareness of effective writing skills and applications of the assignment criteria will become sharper from closely reading and critiquing another student's draft.
You have read and marked up a classmate's Critque Essay rough draft. Please put a copy of the mark-up -- with the track changes highlighted -- in this folder. Include any end comments you made as well.

RICKS- Critique Draft Week 6
Carla Ricks posted Jun 24, 2016 6:26 PM Subscribe
Dr. Maureen E. Wilson's (2004) article "Learning, Teaching, and Millennial Students" was published in New Directions for Student Services. Wilson examines and emphasizes seven good practice principles for undergraduate education is imperative and beneficial to improving effective teaching of the Millennial generation of college students. The seven good practice principles are current recommendations that will be mentioned to illustrate show how Wilson structured the article to equally represent and explain these principles. Wilson strategically organizes the paragraphs in the article with easily identifiable headings and subheadings, repetition of key terms, and paragraphs that transition succinctly.

In the article, Wilson focuses on seven good practice principles in sequence. The good practice principles are recommendations for educators that will be beneficial for them to effectively teach Millennial undergraduate students. The seven good practice principles consist of student-faculty contact, reciprocity and cooperation, active learning, feedback, time on task high expectations, and diverse talents and ways of knowing. Individually and collectively these wonderful recommendations can transform the mindset of Millennial undergraduate students to do better in their college and university studies. She supports the good practice principles with research from other scholars in the field of education as well. In teaching Millennial students, Wilson (2004) acknowledges setting high expectations for the students, teaching students with disabilities, and the huge impact and influence technology has in the education students. The research from multiple scholars adds validity throughout her article.

In the article, Wilson dynamically arranges differentiates between the two main headings. The first heading is entitled "Elements of Effective Teaching" which has seven indented subheadings. The first indented subheading is student-faculty-contact, reciprocity and cooperation, active learning, feedback, time on task, high expectations and diverse talents and ways of knowing. These are the seven principles that Wilson examines from Chickering and Gamson (1987) who an extensive research history comprising of fifty years. The second heading is "Teaching Millennials" which has four indented subheadings. The first subheading is high expectations, parental involvement, technology and students with disabilities.
Each of the respective subheadings has two or more indented paragraphs in the article. The two headings guided the reader to follow and stay in the correct section of the article, as they may have been reading, rereading, annotating, analyzing, or evaluating the source text. The article, "Welcoming a New Generation to College: The Millennial Students," Elam et al used headings to denote the beginning of a new main point. The second paragraph under each main heading was indented as Wilson has done in her article. An organized article provides for a clean read and minimal to no confusion for the reader.

Wilson's excellent organization is visually appealing and it provides a great format for readers follow the recommendations in the article. In addition, to presenting the information in sequential order there is an equal balance in the repetition of key terms used by Wilson in the article. Wilson is constantly and consistently referring back to the subheading of the respective paragraph by repeatedly using the key terms. For example, in the subheading "Time on Task" Wilson makes reference to student's time spent on their studies six times in
the four paragraphs. Repetition of the key terms in the paragraphs being used is not overwhelming to the explanation or excessively used to belittle the reader on the good practice principle. Key terms serve as a reminder throughout Wilson's main point are in the respective headings and subheadings. Elam et al using key terms in their paragraphs as well. In the heading Communicating with Parents of Millennials:
Admission Strategies and Beyond Elam et al focuses on the key term parents an ample amount of times.
For instance, Elam et al highlights that "parental involvement does not wane." Information is also presented on a Parents' Advisory Council and Parents' weekend. By using an adequate amount of repetition of key terms Elam et al and Wilson do not digress from the current principle that they are each explaining in their respective articles.

Wilson cohesively kept the flow of her writing on track as she gracefully wrote from one subheading to the next. The topic sentences at the beginning of each new paragraph are written well. The paragraph for reciprocity and cooperation transitioned well to the active learning paragraph. Wilson implies that Millennial students have more often than not experienced cooperative and collaborative learning before they came to college. The topic sentence into the next subheading Wilson states that, "cooperative and collaborative learning are two forms of active learning." Wilson demonstrates the ease of transitioning from the subheading Reciprocity and Cooperation to Active Learning was quite natural. To this end, Wilson has done an awesome job of making the connection from one good practice principle to the next in the article.

Wilsons' impeccable ability to examine each of the good practice principles is cohesively demonstrated in the layout of the organized article. The two headings provided a clear distinction from one another.
The subheadings that come under the heading elements of effective teaching describe and examine the seven good practice principles. Wilson then she explains the importance of teaching Millennial students instead of instructing them. The repetition of key words is paramount to ensure the reader that she's staying on topic and throughout the respective paragraphs in the subheadings. The wordage is necessary and not excessive to annoy the reader. The transition paragraphs are clearly written and the topic sentences are implied and concise. Readers appreciate a source text that is not only written to entertain, persuade or inform but easy and concise for them to read and understand. These recommendations that educators can take into consideration can sharpen their effective teaching talent as they continue to exude a wealth of knowledge to undergraduate students.

References:

Elam, C., Stratton, T., & Gibson, D. (2007). Welcoming a new generation to college: The millennial
students. Journal of College Admission, (195), 20-25.

Wilson, M (2004). Teaching, learning, and Millennial students. New Directions for Student Services,
(106), 59-71.