Abstract

NOT TOO SURPRISINGLY, a correspondence usually exists between the way English instructors teach a class and the way their students write essays, between the kind of class they create and the kind of essay their students write. In other words, there is a formal relationship between how instructors teach (means, method, style) and the product they expect to be produced, what they expect to be learned (end, outcome). Obviously what instructors teach is related to what they expect their students to learn; less obvious is the relationship between how they teach and what they expect their students to learn. The elements of the class are much like the