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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...
...large lecture course, students ordinarily lack access to the Great Man, who is busy with his own scholarship. But for most undergraduates, talking with interested graders and section men would prove no less valuable. Thus one immediately practicable way to restore the educational dialogue in the large, upper-level lecture course is to have more graders; two graders for a lecture course of 200 is not sufficient for the kind of continuous interaction described here. The problem is more than one of more than one of more men and more money, however. Graders in courses money, however. Graders in courses...
What are the hallmarks of this failure of personal engagement in student term papers? David T. Little-john, 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 slightly 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...
...36th annual edition of the Guide cover more courses than any pre- edition, including all lower-level some upper-level General Education courses, all courses regularly open to , and 24 middle-group courses as Gov 180, History 161a, Ec 101, 115, Phil...
...that they must now further compress already-crowded course schedules to cover the material under their rubrics. Where this proves impossible or detrimental, the optional wording of the Faculty's decision can be invoked, and the course can elect to run straight through till exams--as in fact many upper-level courses...