The syllabus for ENG101 "[r]equires students to produce a minimum of 20 pages of writing." With six sections, and a rough average of 20 students per section, that amounts to a minimum of 2400 pages per semester. My Penguin Classics edition of Moby Dick is only 625, not including the "Explanatory Notes." Now I'm getting … Continue reading Garbage Out, Garbage In
Month: January 2018
Why Do I Even Bother
The title of this blog comes from the comment I"m most likely to put on a student paper: Wrong font! I don't know why I care. I've just come to associate academic writing with serifed fonts, especially Times New Roman 12. I'm also waging a war against Calibri, which, according to Wikipedia, "replaced Times New … Continue reading Why Do I Even Bother
The Wrong Font 