The final exams for Comp 101 have been given. The piece is a short paper the topic for which is drawn from a hat. The individuals in the course are expected to write a proposal claim; they’re to get in and out quick and detail a problem, provide a solution or a straight proposal, provide [...]
January 11, 2004 – 9:57 pm
The series on research that can be linked to via the category to the lright specifically created for the purpose of storing “the series” isn’t over. But I feel the need refer to what the parts were about. They weren’t, number one, an initial search for cohesion. They should be incohesive. In the grand scheme [...]
December 27, 2003 – 12:30 pm
I said that skateboarding is a favorite of the Great Lettuce Head. But, it seems to me, really, that the subject matters only in so far as it can fit the requirement teachers propose for a freshman comp course. In this case the student has “chosen” skateboarding as “his/her” subject of academic pursuit. In this [...]
December 26, 2003 – 5:07 pm
I said in another post that students and teachers must learn information management. This may sound cold and technical. It may indeed be a poor choice of words. Nevertheless, what does it mean? I want to consider one approach in the context of a freshman writing course. Lets say we have a task, to explore [...]
December 23, 2003 – 11:59 pm
Models of qualitative and substantive analysis provide keys to controlling an abundance of source materials by putting them into perspective. Id like to talk about one. Call it Limed or acidic qualitative analytics. Tart and spicy thinking. Here we emphasize quality over quantity and relevant understanding of new and traditional communicative spaces: web pages and [...]
December 22, 2003 – 11:35 pm
Sarina Salemi writes: According to my instructor, who was the chair of the history department this year…they hope that by traumatizing (my exaggeration) the education majors with this class, these future teachers may take the time to teach this in high school, where it should have been taught in the first place. Doesn’t this boil [...]
December 22, 2003 – 10:43 pm
The classroom is designed space, architectural and mnemonic. The things we do in college are also designed. Do we need colleges? My answer is no. Do we need smart people to learn about health and healing? Yes. Must college be the place to graduate professional citizens? No, but its probably as good a way as [...]
December 22, 2003 – 10:06 pm
I could generalize that most people dont know what light is. They know it as illumination, brightness, awareness, but its physical nature is a mystery. Its that thing that comes out of a light bulb. Is it matter? Is light shot out of the eye? Is it a beam of corpuscles? What did al-Hasan have [...]
December 20, 2003 – 9:09 pm
I would generalize that if most people heard that life existed on Jupiter, they wouldnt think much of it, unless thy also heard that that life had crowded onto ships and was on its way to enslave planet Earth. This is why science fiction writers make aliens nasty rather than innocuous. It keeps us interested. [...]
December 20, 2003 – 12:44 am
This is one of those “when I was in college posts.” During my first two years in college database organization and storage of catalogued information was just being introduced into the library at the University of Texas at El Paso, a beautiful, spacious, and massive structure built in Bhutanese style architecture. As a writing teacher [...]
That Night I Wandered on my Homeward Way (DrunkenBoat 10)
100 Days: 100 Poems, Summer 2008
