How to Help Students Transition Out of the Forms

Ken: One of the things that we can do to start helping students transition out of the form, I'll give two ideas and I'll turn it over to you. Instead of having them stay to thesis at the end of the first paragraph, have them stay to question at the endof the first paragraph. Good idea. And that way, although they're still going to write those paragraphs, they can start to show how they're working through an answer to a question which would be a quote unquote thesis eventually. We can allow them to phrase a question that allows us to see their thinking process at work as it starts to engage that question.