Critique Essay

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| Critique Essay | Do Students Lose More than They Gain in Online Writing Classes? | | The essay Do students Lose More than They Gain in Online Writing Classes? From publication, Brave New Classrooms by Kate Kiefer (2007). Kiefer argues in her essay that writing courses may not work well online. She provides various arguments regarding her theory and growing concern of whether students benefit from online educational platforms. This essay addresses the many deficits of online learning, particularly concerning the subject of writing. Kiefer also discusses the fact that, although online learning is a now a popular trend due the advancement of technology, it is a flawed system due to a writing teacher trying to foster student-student interaction with no resources other than electronic discourse (Kiefer, 2007). She reveals concerns from the standpoint of classroom support software, student's time constraints and "Market" Models of Education. Additionally, there is an incredible level of detachment caused by the impersonal nature of these online courses among students and student as well as teacher and student. In my opinion, I agree with Kiefer that there is much lost to the all over detachment harbored by the online educational platform. Although, the online learning experience concur with my lifestyle. I feel that my education experience would be more positive, and I could have benefited greatly if my classes were face to face classes. Online learning poses a great deal of questions concerning the value for many reasons. One of the most compelling reasons Kiefer make is the teacher to student ratio. Kiefer argue that "teachers of writing insist that students are best able to learn to write most effectively when they can create and respond to specific language contexts in small groups of students (15–25 students in the class as a whole. With smaller

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