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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What are you trying to teach here? While some of my students undoubtedly have thought this from time to time, I’m the one who really needs to ask and answer these questions. Just exactly what am I trying to teach? If I could distill all the possible topics to cover in each course, which ones […]
