ABC News reports on yet another violent incident on a college campus. This one was all in the family: A demented man decided to kill his father’s live-in girlfriend at home and then visit his father’s classroom and take a … Continue reading
Six more class meetings to go. Three 101 meetings. Three 102 meetings. Four more 2,500-word term papers to read; seven to score and assess. A set of the 101 exercises preliminary to their final 750-word paper awaits on the server. … Continue reading
Eight more days to go. Four class meetings for each composition section. A week and a half of instruction left, with two assignments remaining for the online magazine writing section and the final essay for the 101s; after that two … Continue reading
Cripes. What an endless semester. This has been one of the most difficult semesters I can remember. In the magazine writing course, which mercifully is online — meaning I don’t have to confront at least one nut case face to … Continue reading
Eleven more days to go. In about four and a half hours, it’ll be ten more days. Right this instant, at four in the morning, we have six more 102 class meetings and five more 101 meetings. So that’s two … Continue reading
My having mellowed the other day (briefly, no doubt) when the 101 students showed a flicker of intelligence led frugalscholar and Sandra J to remark that I may secretly like my students. LOL! Well, I do: it’s not the students … Continue reading
Thirteen more days to go. No class on Thursday, grâce á Thanksgiving break. That would be “thanks to Thanksgiving,” a little overkill in the gratitude department. Because of the break, we have seven more 102 classes and only six more … Continue reading
When a person has a poor ear for music he will flat and sharp right along without knowing it. He keeps near the tune, but is not the tune. When a person has a poor ear for words, the result … Continue reading
Sixteen more days to go. Tried my damnedest to lure the 101s into an interactive discussion of what’s involved in writing an effective argumentative research paper. Worse than pulling teeth: at least a dentist actually can get something out of … Continue reading
Eighteen days to go. Of the thirteen students remaining in the magazine writing course, five have turned in something in response to the assignment. That response is not necessarily the paper that’s due. Two people are turning in late work, … Continue reading
