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...possible inclusion of student quotations raised the eyebrows of numerous members. A general consensus was reached that quotations invite "overly colorful" responses from students, regardless of the personal quality they offer to the reader...
Several of those in attendance recommended the incorporation of an objective summary at the end of each evaluation, providing the reader with basic course information, such as the type of course--survey or seminar--and level of advancement...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) agreed on series of steps to revamp its annual collection of course evaluations, the CUE Guide, to make it more useful and reader-friendly...
Beware of novels that allow the reader to open at random to sentences such as this: "Without any signs to steer me, I could only keep plodding along into the uncertainty of my future." The plodder here is one Dominick Pindle, a Massachusetts teen who makes the big, cinematic oopsy of falling for his father's other woman. Imagine the consequences, the confrontations! Sadly, you would probably do a better job than John Searles has in Boy Still Missing (Morrow; 292 pages; $25), a back-to-the-early-'70s drama of family misery and social devolution. It's an action...
...work at being healthy," says Christine. "I have to watch what I eat, and I'd rather sleep in than work out at the gym. In writing this week's story, I wanted to share the good news that lifestyle changes can make a difference." Now if only a reader would send Christine the perfect recipe for chocolate Brussels sprout mousse...