As it happened, another person was writing about the same topic.
How and why might departments come up with varying opinions about the same topic?
Why?" Further Questions for Discussion: -How do different studies about the same topic get varying results?
A thousand people can all create pages about the same topic and hope the best one wins.
Representative Robert W. Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia, will be on C-SPAN's "Newsmakers" to talk about the same topic.
It files notes in the form of cards resembling digital Post-its, and you can pile lots of cards about the same topic together into notebooks.
But a Webzine, he said, "can be much more dynamic, change its content faster, create dialogue with a bunch of people passionate about the same topic, and push the envelope in getting them to interact".
Once they have an issue in mind, have students write down two or three facts about this topic, and then two or three opinions, not necessarily their own, about the same topic.
Some students played "Simon Says" or "Chinese Whispers" in ten-minute breaks to make sure they didn't unintentionally think about what they had just heard; others listened to more about the same topic.
For instance, they might start with this news article for factual background information, then read this editorial to see how an Opinion piece about the same topic is written.
Include different stations or booths where guests can experience the value of the written word in various forms, such as children's books, poetry, e-mail, signs, artwork, music, historical documents, periodicals, etc. Teaching with The Times- Read the Letters to the Editor section and then read the Readers Opinionn section of The Times online about the same topic (www.nytimes.com).
