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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 May 2020
A recent grant from the National Office of Pi Sigma Alpha gave us the opportunity to provide students with an extra-curricular writing experience that proved rewarding for all involved. The honorary's Committee on Chapter Activities funded a project jointly conceived by chapters at Miami and Purdue Universities during the 1981-82 academic year.
The project consisted of a research essay contest with a cash prize awarded to the winning paper authors. Three teams of two students each were chosen from both chapters to write papers and to present them at a joint meeting. Specifically, the three “teams” from Miami were asked to write on the following topics:
1.The Reagan Administration seems committed to a lessened role for the federal government and a stronger role for the state governments in determining and implementing public policies.
1 Keller, W. D., “On Teaching and Learning,” in Buxton, Thomas H. and Prichard, Keith W. (eds.), Excellence in University Teaching (Columbia: University of South Carolina), 1975, p. 63.Google Scholar
2 During the week following the exchange, students were asked to respond to a short open ended questionnaire that contained items concerned with how this writing differed from other writing they had done; how beneficial they thought the exchange was; how they reacted to the co-author experience; and their over-all impression of the exchange. Eleven of the twelve students involved returned completed questionnaires.
3 Keller, p. 65.
4 Ibid., pp. 65-66.