September 26, 2007

• I have a sore throat!?!

  Things I am reminded of (whenever I grade papers or see the papers post-writing conferences):
  = Most students write well.
  = Most students revise.
  = Some students don’t look at my rubric that’s in the syllabus; they have no title to their paper.
  = Students shouldn’t meet with me if they aren’t even going to revise afterward.
  = Students will try all sorts of ways to lengthen their papers; now that I used eCompanion & they submit them electronically, I can see that they’ve added pts in the spacing, or used a font that has spacing that looks triple-spaced.
  = Students don’t know what I mean when I say, in conference, “This needs to be heavily proofread by you or someone.”
  = Students like to concoct their own version of what the top of the first page should look like; MLA isn’t creative enough (and, really, I have no problem with creative headings to their paper, but adding a 24pt font isn’t going to help the situation).
  
  There’s got to be better assignments out there than “the essay” that I can implement into the classroom to lessen the “uh, we have to write a paper” syndrome. I’m really tired of that attitude. Perhaps I need to switch to 6 smaller papers/projects/assignments?

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