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At Lehman College, a senior college of the City Univ. of N.Y., we, and several other colleges, are using RealTIme Writer (RTW), an interactive software dialogue system on which students can develop their ideas, questions, texts in writing through social interaction with their peers. After their large and small group dialogues, they receive a print- out of their discussion, which they can then analyze and use for multiple purposes and reasons, including returning the following day to further develop a fragment of an idea or to followup on a point or question that was raised. IN effect, their conversations in writing are archieved for later use and reference. We use RTW in several classes, including adult literacy, ESL, remedial comp, basic comp, advanced comp, and now foreign languages. This system is also being used at a number of other colleges, including Gallaudet, Un. of Minn, New York Institute of Tech, Northern Virginia Community, and a few high schools. Students are learning how to write, consider audience, style, and so forth through written social interaction, which moves them from solitary and individual computer composing and into a responsive and collaborative network. If anyone would like additional technical information about RTW and a resoure guide for suggestions on how to use it in a class, write Mr. Ronald Shapiro RealTime Learning Systems 2700 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20008-5330 Talking with you soon, David Fletcher Lehman College Bronx, N. Y.
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