This semester, I've bought my students notebooks. Instead of submitting typed papers online, they'll be journaling by hand.

For the average professor, a student whose notebook is full of miscellaneous papers, magazine clippings, grocery lists, foil, dryer lint or playing cards doesn’t seem like an effective use of space.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, an NYU professor, has bought her students notebooks for their assessments. She didn't want to approach ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, an assistant professor of history and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. The following has been ...