I’m reading a book about pedagogy in higher education, and I’m presently trying to go through a chapter on course planning. It’s important and should be interesting, but I’m annoyed with having to handle sentences like this:<\/p>\n
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\nbq. Identify the links between objectives\/outcomes, student characteristics, course\/module content, teaching and learning strategies, course\/module assessment methods.
\nAaagh! Why include all those slashes<\/a> ? Why not simply state “course = course \/ module” early on, and not break up the text like that? These are two
\n“Objectives\/outcomes” and “course\/module” occur throughout the chapter, so the brain is continually having to make sense of the text – either reading the ugly phraseology or continually having to make a substitution like this73<\/a><\/sup>: s\/bjectives\\\/module\/bjectives\/.
\nObjectives\/outcomes is the worse: not only is it ugly, but it’s not even clear why we need both. Apparently they are slightly different things, but the author doesn’t bother to tell use what the difference it. Come to that, the author doesn’t bother to tell use what either one is. The book’s glossary admits that the definition of objectives has wandered a bit, and gives a rough definition, but doesn’t have an entry for outcomes.
\nJust to demonstrate the effect of all those slashes – how many of you spotted the grammatical error in the quote?<\/p>\n