It’s much more common than I would like it to be: an ESL student in my Freshman Composition class works hard, comes to every class session, scribbles assiduously during my lectures (poor dear), turns in every assignment, but hovers near the failing mark. Unfortunately for too many of them, their writing just makes very little […]
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Here’s one thing I learned this semester: applying a theme to a required composition course makes the course more enjoyable for my students AND for me. It turns out that “The Pursuit of Happiness” is a topic that matters to all of us. Because really, who doesn’t want to be happy? One of my students, […]
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” –Declaration of Independence, 1776 What did the framers of the Declaration of Independence intend when they declared “the pursuit of […]
