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Management productivity & Teamwork
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Automation Trends
Errors Discover Communication Issues Before Mistakes Impact Work
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1214 - Summary/Objective
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121501 - An article in the Sunday Business section of the SF Examiner
121502 - deals with an important aspect of POIMS.  We should inquire to see if
121503 - the writer would like to do a follow up article on the broader
121504 - implications and applications of the ideas advanced in the article,
121505 - and second, whether the College would like to expand their experiment.
121506 -
121507 - Was unable to contact anyone, but left message for writer at Seattle
121508 - times to call back.
121509 -
121510 -    I was later able to incorporate these ideas in the POIMS article
121511 -    for publication in PMI at ref SDS 1 line 27.
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1217 -
1218 - Background
1219 -
121901 - June 26, 1991, SF Examiner Business section on page 14, has a
121902 - headline:
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121904 -
121905 -                  A Spur to Young Writers
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121908 - Written by Carey Quan Gelernter, of the Seattle Times.
121909 -
121910 - University of Washington is using a "...computer integrated course,"
121911 - to experiment in the undergraduate English program.  The objective is
121912 - to teach students to think critically and write convincingly.
121913 -
121914 - Michael Yogev is a doctoral student and the program coordinator whose
121915 - specialty is English romantic poets.
121916 -
121917 - There's no class discussion with students raising hands and the
121918 - teacher calling on them.  But there's a lot of "silent" discussion:
121919 - "Peer groups" talk aloud in their trios and through their computers,
121920 - with other classmates.
121921 -
121922 - Yogev, one of the originators of the program along with several other
121923 - professors and doctoral students, says it was conceived as a way to
121924 - induce students to revise their papers more.  The problem:  Students
121925 - don't like to retype papers and so resisted rewriting.
121926 -
121927 - Because it's easy to erase and reposition paragraphs on a computer,
121928 - the instructors figured students would more likely revise.
121929 -
121930 - The program designers studied a few other university programs, but
121931 - found no really successful model to duplicate.  "Nobody else has done
121932 - what we have, that we know," Yogev says.
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1220 -
1221 - Analysis
1222 -
122201 - The advantage cited by Mr. Yogev of using computers to teach writing,
122202 - is one of the core ideas in POIMS, and it applies to everybody under
122203 - the section on Thinking Through Writing. ref OF 1 3742
122204 -
122205 - It is curious this idea has not received greater attention.  Perhaps
122206 - professional writers do not realize their special gifts can be applied
122207 - more generally to those for whom writing is a struggle, and that this
122208 - significantly improves productivity, because "critical thinking" is
122209 - one source of innovation.
122210 -
122211 -    [On 930112 raised this idea in the Writer's forum on Prodigy.
122212 -    ref SDS 2 3443]
122213 -
122214 -    [On 990121 book on role of both hands in aiding human thought
122215 -    through action, including writing. ref SDS 4 3245
122216 -
122217 -    [On 000530 contacted researcher at University of Washington, cited
122218 -    this record.
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Advertising; Public Support, 910506

1304 - Follow Up
1305 -
130501 - I called for Carey Quan Gelernter at Seattle Times.  She was out; left
130502 - number for her to call back.
130503 -
130504 -     206 464 2266
130505 -     Business News
130506 -     P.O. 70
130507 -     Seattle, WA   98111
130508 -
130509 -     Carey's direct line:  206 464 2218
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130513 - University of Washington
130514 - English Department
130515 - 206 543 2690
130516 -         2100  general
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130518 - There was no answer at English Department.
130519 -
130520 -     543 8580  student reference listing
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