First of all, thanks for all your suggestions re: dystopian fiction/tv shows. I haven't heard yet if the course has been approved, but it seems likely that it will be ( Read more... )

This Death to High School English has received a lot of flack from my Facebook f-list. I agree with its basic, agonized complaint: I see an appalling number of college students who can't write a basic sentence, and I've now been around long enough to see that there's a correlation between Bad Writing and Joblessness After Graduation.

If I had to ( Read more... )

Marking student's final essay proposals is a lot like playing the old-school computer game "Lemmings." Every time I turn around, somebody is cheerfully walking off a cliff. And by the time I've finished an email saying "oh no! Don't do that!" a student whose course I just corrected is cheerfully walking off a completely different academic cliff ( Read more... )