摘要：The purpose of traditional reading and writing assignments, in courses across the entirecurriculum, is to evaluate the students’ and the authors’ work. I outline some reasonswhy this is a crucial problem for student learning. I describe some assignments that allentail creating occasions in which student writing has consequences other than a mark,and offer oppurtunities for learning which include, and go significantly beyond, thelearning of “course content”—that help students learn what academic reading andwriting is for, how it works, and how to wield its power.
