Word: texts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interest of preventing boredom. For the same reason, Craig, Fairbank and Reischauer consistently lecture in Soc Sci 11 on the parts of the East Asian tome they didn't write. Loomis decided to leave his Math I teaching post as soon as the department voted to switch to his text several years ago. "I get embarrassed about using my own," Loomis confided. "Anyway, it's easier to use someone else's book. When you use your own, you're inclined to repeat yourself. Besides that, students gain more from learning two points of view," he said...
Some of the large majority of professors who do decide to use their own texts concede that there is a great tendency to overlap material in lecture. Some, like E.O. Wilson, like it that way, and seize upon the opportunity to go into greater depth. He uses examples that are closely related to, but not included in the text. Most, like James Duesenberry, have their students use them so they don't have to wade through the drudgery of teaching the basics and can devote lectures to elaborating on material which is their...
Perhaps the problem of whether professors should or shouldn't teach from works they've written has no "right" answer. Some mathematicians use no text--they just go to a board and invent a textbook on the spot. In some uncommon cases, professors feel it is immoral to ask their own students to buy their books. "Then what happens to the textbook that becomes a classic?" Cavell asks rhetorically. "Kant and Hegel would have used their own. Of course, they didn't have any competitors...
...author divides his work into alphabetical sections suitable for future reference. A is for Alcohol, for instance, B is for Bottlenecks, ¶is for Clutter, etc. Cross references in the text link various subjects (see No. 5 below...
...mysteries of Chinese politics to Western readers has two unusual features. First, Richard Solomon, a China analyst with the National Security Council, and his collaborator Talbot W. Huey, a political science teacher at the University of Massachusetts, have assembled a kaleidoscope of photographic images for which their lucid text serves as a kind of continuous caption. The result is an intentionally McLuhanesque message about China rather than systematic exposition. It is impressionistic, incomplete and even a bit whimsical. But it provides as vivid a sense of the complexities of Maoist China as any book yet published...