I had my Elementary Composition students do a pretty cool exercise this week. They’re working on including details and examples in their writing, and we did an exercise where they had to choose details and examples in the room and write a paragraph showing how they feel about school in general. But that wasn’t...
Read more →Wanna save the world from machines? Check out Electronic Road Signs and Me. (via Weird is Relative)
Read more →To those seeking an update on the Saemangeum project, I recommend Gusts Of Popular Feeling’s summary.
Read more →In case my posts about marking and plagiarism leave readers thinking I am bitter or unhappy in my work, I don’t mean to leave you with that impression. I have had one of those days which, well, which I find come after midterm exams: I’ve been interacting a lot with students, in all kinds...
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Read more →I made a small tactical error. I let my best writing class — which is one of my Elementary Writing courses, by the way, not the Advanced course — suggest topics, and hastily I chose the most controversial ones. Of course, this included “Dog Soup” and “The Yellow Dust from China” and a few...
Read more →Here’s what’s left for me to mark: 8 of the Advanced Writing Course essays (2-3 pages each) 28 11 in-class essays (meaning handwritten, 1-3 pages double spaced) a few outlines that have not yet been submitted for my public speaking course midterm the one remaining outline that one student forgot to do up for...
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