A key component of working with students for whom academic success is merely hypothetical is to encourage and support their identification of personal goals. An activity I use with my classes to address this is called “How Big is Your Paycheck?” Students are asked to identify career goals and then calculate how much education they’ll […]
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A recent article in our local paper detailed an experiment with online essay mills. Duke University professor Dan Ariely provided four mills a bogus essay assignment and payment. Some of the essays he received in return included completely incomprehensible text; two were heavily plagiarized. Ironically, the writing quality in each of them was awful. Cheaters never prosper, or […]
I am fairly new to teaching–I just finished my sixth year of teaching community college Freshman Composition classes and my fifth year as a high school science and English teacher. What I am not new to is learning. I think I’ve always loved learning more than anything else in life. That’s why I’m a voracious reader […]
