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Do any schools besides the University of Pittsburgh actually have these? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.49.26.31 (talk • contribs) 20:58, 6 February 2006

-yes, just about every ABET accredited program (undergraduate) in mechanical and electrical engineering has some form of recitation periods. Anyone else go through an undergrad engineering program that didn't have a recitation period? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.10.210.20 (talk • contribs) 18:01, 19 February 2006

-Yes, it is extremely widespread and a long-standing part of STEM education in the United States. I've added some references to the existing text. KeeYou Flib (talk) 17:55, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Is this the main meaning of the word?[edit]

What about the recitation of religious texts, or of poetry, etc.? Is the academic meaning really the main meaning of the term? -- 145.254.145.85 18:33, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Poetry recitation redirects to poetry reading, I've added a cross-link here. I've never heard of religious-text-recitations. I think "recitation" alone with no modifiers most often refers to the academic use. -- stillnotelf is invisible 00:46, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is a very specific usage in a narrow context. It doesn't belong in Wikipedia for two reasons, one it is misleading as to majority usage of the term, and two it violates WP:DICT. --Bejnar (talk) 22:11, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have rewritten the stub in accordance with Wikipedia:DICT#Fixing bad articles/stubs, citing sources. --Bejnar (talk) 23:50, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Recitation as a performing art" – what about the Western tradition?![edit]

Not only in Bangladesh and India, recitation was a performing art across much of Europe and elsewhere, way before the advent of sound recording, and until about the 1940s. There are old gramophone records of famous recitators, and recitations of poems, prose, or epics (for example Norse sagas) were social events on a par with theatre plays or music recitals (both public and private). -- megA (talk) 04:50, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]