Abstract:Against the background of available pedagogical advice, this article describes the challenges faced and innovations undertaken in a large lecture-discussion literature class for nonmajor undergraduates. The professor and graduate teachers found the task fraught with problems but also fertile in possibilities for improving undergraduate literacy and pedagogical skills and techniques.
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