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...school—thank God—but the damned hybrid doesn’t handle well in the snow.And you expect us to go to a Faculty meeting? I think I’ll catch up on my journals, thank you very much, or maybe write an essay for The New Yorker. From Nassau.The actual business of running Harvard is frustratingly tedious. The Faculty figured out as much last spring, when several hours—hours!—of tepid discussion preceded the passage of Harvard’s latest undergraduate curriculum. It’s much more...
...Pedagogical Improvement, requires students in his Literature and Arts B-51 course, “First Nights: Five Performance Premieres” to hand in a printout confirming their completion of the Q response in order to get into the final lecture.Because students had to write their final essay on this lecture, Kelly boasts one of the best response rates of any professors. All but two of the 205 students in the class filled out the evaluations.Kelly said the feedback gleaned from the guides is crucial in helping professors make their courses better. “If it weren?...
...discussion of the various methods whereby the crafty student attempts to show the grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject very well might mean something to the grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks...
...take the typical example, “Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme.” The question is asked, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?” Our hero replies by opening his essay with, “David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it.” This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually...
...Just exactly what the equivocator’s answer has to do with the actual question is hard to say. The equivocator writes an essay about the point, but never on it. Consequently, the grader often mentally assumes that the right answer is known by the equivocator and marks the essay as an extension of the point rather than a complete irrelevance. The artful equivocation must imply the writer knows the right answer, but it must never be definite enough to eliminate any possibilities...