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What are the hallmarks of this failure of personal engagement in student term papers? David T. Littlejohn, a second-year graduate student in English, read about 80 long term papers during May for two upper-level English courses. He talked of their "insufferable dullness," lamenting "the absence of any imaginative involvement" on the part of the writer. The result: "commonplace topics and commonplace papers." In silghtly different terms, Professor William Alfred described what is essentially the same problem, noting the students' habit of suppressing their own perceptions and immediate responses, holding back what they think and feel. Rather, in writing...
...graders like David Littlejohn have said, talking about a paper before writing it, especially in the case of longer papers, can help the student to find a subject that will genuinely appeal to him and engage his interest. The grader can often suggest new and fresh ways of treating material...
...graders like David Littlejohn have said, talking about a paper before writing it, especially in the case of longer papers, can help a student to find a subject that will genuinely appeal to him and engage his interest. The grader can often suggest new and fresh ways of treating material...
...DAVE LITTLEJOHN...
...Words. Runner-up Caroline Littlejohn, who hopes to use her scholarship at Barnard, had not been so confident. She is at the top of her class in Classen High in Oklahoma City, but she was worried about missing two weeks of school for the trip and not sure what the judges would think of her essay, "Beginning Researches in the Mathematical Theory of Relativity and Its Applications." When she heard her name called and stepped to the mike she found just two words for her fellow scientists: "Oh heavens...