Posted in Education, Research, Writing on Oct 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Welcome to my contribution to Blog Action Day!
What’s it about?
On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone […]
Posted in College, Education, English, Students, Teaching, Writing on Sep 21st, 2007 2 Comments »
Grading essays is such an odd task: it combines evaluation with instruction, but each message is often lost on its audience. Marking papers is a time consuming and exhausting process, and not getting paid to do it only becomes more frustrating when I consider the effort is probably going to be ignored by the […]
Posted in Education, Teaching, Writing on Aug 14th, 2007 7 Comments »
Last month, Gregory tagged me, and I’ve spent much of the time between then and now debating how I might respond.
First, thanks Gregory: even if you admitted to struggling with the names of blogs to mention, I think it’s cool that of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, [you] […]
Posted in College, Comparison/Contrast, Education, English, Students, Teaching, Writing on Aug 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »
From this morning’s AP wire:
California’s budget is again overdue, and education is at the heart of the delay. While one side refuses to allow more cuts in the area of education, the other is demanding more cuts be made. The result: the members of the state legislature are embroiled in a tug-of-war that […]
Posted in College, Education, English, Teaching, Writing on Jun 7th, 2007 2 Comments »
Summer Session Countdown: T-Minus 4 Days
I think I have the most of what I’m going to need for my first week of school squared away. The job has been made a bit easier by the recent, bad weather: there’s been no temptation to wile away my time in the sun while gazing at the […]
Posted in Books, College, Education, English, Grammar, Punctuation, Students, Teaching, Writing on May 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Summer Session Enrollment Watch:
ENGWR 100 (College Writing): 30/28 (Change = +1)
ENGWR 301 (College Composition and Literature): 32/25 (Change = -1)
It appears my worries regarding whether or not my summer classes were going to fill are over. With more than two weeks remaining before the session begins, both of the courses I’m teaching are full, […]
Posted in College, Education, English, Students, Teaching, Writing on May 24th, 2007 2 Comments »
Summer Session Enrollment Watch:
ENGWR 100 (College Writing): 29/28 (Change = +10)
ENGWR 301 (College Composition and Literature): 33/25 (Change = +3)
Summer school is an odd beast. It’s a period during which an eighteen-week semester is crammed into six-weeks’ time. That means each day in summer session is equivalent to about three-days’ of class, or […]
Posted in Books, Education, Students, Teaching, Writing on May 22nd, 2007 3 Comments »
Summer Session Enrollment Watch:
ENGWR 100 (College Writing): 24/28 (Change = +8)
ENGWR 301 (College Composition and Literature): 31/25 (Change = +12)
Summer session begins three weeks from today, and already I have a waiting list in my literature class. I don’t want to jinx things, but this is very good news.
In other good news, a box of […]
Posted in College, Students, Teaching, Writing on May 14th, 2007 1 Comment »
I have been carefully monitoring my summer session enrollment numbers in hopes that I am:
A. Going to be working;
B. Going to be teaching a literature class;
C. All of the above.
The good news is that summer-session registration is still in its early stages.
The better news is that as of today, I have 13 students (of […]
Posted in Argument, College, Education, Students, Teaching, Writing on May 10th, 2007 2 Comments »
I posted my e-mail response to one of my students yesterday, and today, I learned from another of my students what the real scoop was with Ms. Numerous Deaths and Tragedies Girl. She is up for a promotion at a local (low-end) electronics store.
If things go well for her, she’ll soon be an assistant […]