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gascap
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I know in a class like yours you probably won't have a problem pairing up folks for collabs, but let me just say this:
Many times in school when the teacher chose the 'breking up into teams' method, it seemed like many times that I ended up doing the majority of the work, yet the group received the grade. Granted, these weren't music courses and your students will be of different mind-set than when I was in that environment, but I'm still leary about how 'team projects' break down in the end. Obviously co-writes are everywhere in the music biz and are certainly worth devoting time to in a soingwriting class, so mine is probably a non-issue here. Still...I thought I'd throw it out there....maybe a collab scenario would be stronger later in the course. I'll bet your students will let you know (either vocally outright, or by their behavior) whether collabs will fly.
I also echo Crawdad's question about titles being at the end of the course. Most Nashville writers (the ones I met anyway) have notebooks full of nothing but hooks/titles - which is where the writing sessions always started. Obviously this isn't always the way, but it was pretty prevalent there.
This is an interesting thread!
Good luck!
Many times in school when the teacher chose the 'breking up into teams' method, it seemed like many times that I ended up doing the majority of the work, yet the group received the grade. Granted, these weren't music courses and your students will be of different mind-set than when I was in that environment, but I'm still leary about how 'team projects' break down in the end. Obviously co-writes are everywhere in the music biz and are certainly worth devoting time to in a soingwriting class, so mine is probably a non-issue here. Still...I thought I'd throw it out there....maybe a collab scenario would be stronger later in the course. I'll bet your students will let you know (either vocally outright, or by their behavior) whether collabs will fly.
I also echo Crawdad's question about titles being at the end of the course. Most Nashville writers (the ones I met anyway) have notebooks full of nothing but hooks/titles - which is where the writing sessions always started. Obviously this isn't always the way, but it was pretty prevalent there.
This is an interesting thread!
Good luck!