Some Thoughts about Feelings: The Affective Domain and the Writing Process.
@article{Mcleod1987SomeTA, title={Some Thoughts about Feelings: The Affective Domain and the Writing Process.}, author={Susan Mcleod}, journal={College Composition and Communication}, year={1987}, volume={38}, pages={426} }
I am watching a roomful of college freshmen take an essay exam; I can nearly see the tension in the air. Several young men and women stare into space, pencils poised, brows furrowed, sweating slightly. A number of others gnaw their lower lips. Others chew their pens, their pencils, their fingernails. One examinee tears a page out of his bluebook, crumples it tightly, and fires it at a nearby wastebasket. When I announce there are five minutes left there is a rustle of sighs and low groans, a…
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