[lit-ideas] Re: sharing my brother's misery
- From: John Wager <johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 19:50:59 -0500
Almost every teacher has their own file of "student abominations." After
29 years teaching introductory philosophy classes, my file is quite
large. But after a while, you realize that there aren't all that many
"new" abominations, and you realize that the level of student
comprehension is fairly constant over time.
Mark Twain was interested in these student abominations as well. Part of
the book WHAT IS MAN was devoted to long quotations from a manuscript
written by an English teacher. Most of it could have been written this
year rather than in 1917.
The section "ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT" is on line here:
http://academics.triton.edu/uc/english.html
JulieReneB@xxxxxxx wrote:
>I doubt anyone here teaches undergrad courses, but I had to see if anyone
>could tell me how comparable this is to undergrad work around the country. My
>brother forwarded me the below, re. a second semester comp class he teaches.
>I
>had my 12 year old fix the sentence and send it back to him <g>. The College
>is a well-regarded Private College. Btw, it was typed, not handwritten.
>Julie Krueger
>
><<The following is the first sentence of the paper I am currently grading:
>
>"Two women with somewhat matching situations and common traits, but then also
>had totally different outcomes to their stories.">>
>
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