English Class – WIIFM?

A response to the WIIFM Activity
created October 25, 2019 by Mel Young (@melyoung00)

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I remember asking my math teacher in high school, “Why do I need to learn trigonometry? I’m never going to use it in my career.”

Here I am, 18 years after graduating high school and have yet to use trig! I get it – students, especially adult learners, want to know what we are using class time to teach is going to be useful to them outside of class.

When I first started teaching English class at the college level, I was baffled at how many students would ask why they had to be taking English.

In this post I share my list of WIIFM when assigning an essay in my College Communications class

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