I’m embarrassed in retrospect by the statement I wrote when I first applied to PhD programs as a recent graduate from SUNY Binghamton. I was living abroad, in love with what I was doing and with my aspirations, and really excited about being so brilliant and insightful. I wrote something in my first paragraph about […]
Prioritize Most students will spend only a few minutes reading your comments. So prioritize. What are a couple of things they should work on for the next draft or the next assignment? What are you responding to? Early draft? Mid-stage draft? Finished project that you’re grading? The context should drive your responding decisions.
These two screencasts describe the article review assignment that I use in my 300-level classes. It’s keyed to the Reading and Summarizing Secondary Sources handout. This demo is an article review of Mark Rifkin’s essay “Romancing Kinship: A Queer Reading of Indian Education and Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories.” We just read the introductory section in […]