Have students in our readership had experiences with alcohol on college visits?
For those students in our readership: What do you consider the most important aspect of a college?
Once word of the scandal at Penn State broke, including the arrest of two university officials on charges of perjury and of failing to report to the authorities what they knew of the accusations, my colleagues at the New York Times's Learning Network blog, Katherine Schulten and Holly Epstein Ojalvo, saw a teaching moment to engage the high school students in their readership.
Because students are the primary readership, the objective was to make a sturdy and affordable product.
Absolutely clueless college students probably constitute the ideal readership for Ms. Ray, who can explain to them how you make prosciutto and melon, a favorite with all 30-minute cookbook writers.
It is ironic that The Question of Animal Culture does not speak to a broader readership of biology students, considering that culture is a particularly salient and therefore eminently teachable example of the importance of social and other forms of environmental determination in developmental and evolutionary biology.
A good way to motivate students is to show them the readership of the articles they started (or rewrote).
And of course, with the significant readership and a propensity for students to share especially embarrassing items on social media, there is the increased likelihood that someone's disorderly conduct will go viral.
The obvious example is Seamus Heaney who has a wide readership as well as a bevy of students writing essays and theses about him.
His two books before My Struggle had been well received in Norway but the readership was limited to what he calls "people in the system": students, academics, other writers and those with a particular interest in literature.
