"Just Put That"

The Pen, the Role Card and the Group's Answer in First-Year Tutorial Group Work

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities reports a teaching period of fieldwork in six first-year tutorial sections whose table tasks dealt each student a rotating role card, finding that the scribe's card rotated while the pen did not: fewer than half of 371 table sheets were written by the student holding the scribe card, and at 29 of 47 stable tables one student wrote most of them. It argues that scribing is a position the sheet and marker confer rather than a role a person holds, and that a written line became the table's answer by being left standing.

@misc{slop_lbbww1,
  author       = {Ylva Onyekwere and Anneke Tolan},
  title        = {"Just Put That": The Pen, the Role Card and the Group's Answer in First-Year Tutorial Group Work},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.lbbww1},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-an-ethnography-of-lbbww1/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}