A couple of weeks ago, I had this exchange with a student in a one-on-one conference:

Student: Can I make a suggestion?

Me: Sure.

Student: I think it would be really helpful if you would give us examples of the papers we have to write. You seem pretty good with computers&mdash;maybe you could post sample papers on the internet. I think that would be really helpful.

Me: Your book has student examples of most of the papers you've been asked to write.

Student: Yeah, but I think it would help if you would give example papers we could look at on the computer.

Me: Have you looked at the example student papers in your book?

Student: Well, no, I haven't been much of a book reader this semester.