The course professors respond to the students by teaching them over the next several weeks the very things they have asked to learn. Then, when this is complete, the patient is reintroduced. If the students can now make an accurate diagnosis and distinguish between, say, congestive heart failure and chronic asthma, the class moves on to the next problem. Writing A series of assignments that help students achieve increasingly sophisticated levels of thinking and writing. This is followed by analysis , which is an act of decomposing an idea into component parts.
Application is the use of a developed idea as a tool to probe a constrained situation.
Finally, a case study is application of the developed idea to a more complex problem. Application and case study are sometimes combined. Staged writing is pioneered by Prof. Carolyn Haynes in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Miami University, Ohio, in order to promote interdisciplinary thinking and writing. Subtext A term that refers to the transferrable baccalaureate skills such as writing, speaking, critical thinking, creative thinking, contextual thinking, cultural appreciation, scientific literacy, quantitative inquiry, and tolerance of ambiguity. Many of these skills are explicit parts of general education courses but they also are developed and reinforced in major courses as well.