Article: Course and Assignment Design
Want Your Students to Write Better? Assign Video Essays.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Estimated Completion Time: 15 minutes
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In the current climate of AI doomerism, Michael Blancato and Natalie Copp offer a refreshing and optimistic take on writing, providing classroom-tested examples of how they've effectively integrated video composition into their own pedagogy.
Considering the rhetorical techniques on display in so many video essays, our proposal here is simple: Undergraduates can effectively develop writing and research skills by experimenting with the video-essay genre.