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Instructor Perspective: Having Students Create Podcasts?

David Perkins from the Journalism Department tells us: “Listening to themselves –and imaginging an audience–forces [students] to prepare well, think things through, and write clearly. I think this is good for their writing. Academic writing models are full of jargon and inside talk, podcasting presumes a lay audience, since you have to imagine anyone listening in.”

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