by Christina Crespo Will this be on the exam? Is there partial credit? What do I need to do to get an ‘A’? I’ve often heard these questions from students (and I certainly remember thinking them as a student myself). The stress placed on grades can be intense in undergraduate courses, an understandable phenomenon given…
by Jim Campbell The following excerpt is taken from a 1989 article by Andrew Smith, analyzing Yukio Mishima’s novel Confessions of a Mask: In addition to the textual dyads of Confessions of a Mask mentioned previously, instinctual binomials include the negativity between phenotext and genotext in general as well as, following Jakobson, any ‘double-sensed message’…
by Jonathan Crum In a 2018 overview of research on notetaking effectiveness, Kiewra et al. observe that students are, by and large, incomplete notetakers. Out of the content that students are expected to learn, approximately a third of it actually makes it into their notes (see Austen et al. 2004; Kiewra 2016; Titsworth 2004). As…
by Christina Lee In my writing-intensive class last week, I gave a five minute teach on professional writing. I honestly thought this mini-lesson fell on deaf ears. I asked the students if they understood what I was saying and even had a group activity placed at the end to be sure everyone was on the…