To make sure students paid attention to the bibliographic information at the foot of a document, teachers would begin a document review by asking the whole class, “What’s the first thing we do when we look at a document?” to which the class would chime in unison, “Source!” As Reisman notes, while progressive educators might bristle at the thought of a teacher requiring that students echo in choral response, the need for such rituals eventually falls away. Over time, asking questions about who wrote a document became what John Dewey called “the familiar furniture of the mind.”43 By the end of
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