Wednesday, September 30, 2009

9/23 Chapter 13 in Longman

What were your reactions to this reading? How might these ideas help you as a tutor? How might these ideas help you as a writer?

4 comments:

  1. I think my most stressful “What if…” situations here at UIS involved students not following the assignment. One particular assignment is an especially painful memory. I didn’t back down either in terms of my point of view, but I did try to work around it, but it didn’t really seem to help. It involved a student who insisted in a summary assignment (and he brought the sheet with him so I did read it) that he was not in fact supposed to summarize an article he read, but just give his own viewpoints. I insisted that if the wording was “summary,” and students were required to read an article as part of the assignment that they were supposed to summarize the article that they read as at least part of the assignment. I then tried to work with the rest of the paper in terms of helping him to organize and give details, but he couldn’t give anything but generalizations without actually providing summary and details from the article that he said that he was not in fact supposed to summarize. Thus, the appointment was over in about 10 min.

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  3. Sorry for the mess and confusion that is to follow, of which the explanation will probably help very little. I have an alternate email account for my stage name. Silver Damsen and Sorry for the mess and confusion that is to follow, of which the explanation will probably help very little. I have an alternate email account for my stage name. Silver Damsen and Lucy Black are the same person, and to make it worse, I decided to revise the previous comment for clarity but it wouldn't allow me to delete “Lucy’s” because I tried to add "Silver's" comments before deleting “Lucy's”. Thus, the revised version of "Lucy's" above comment will come in a following post by "Silver" (what I am known as in the CTL).

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  4. I think my most stressful “What if…” situations here at UIS involved students not following the assignment. One particular assignment is an especially painful memory. I didn’t back down either in terms of my point of view, but I did try to work around it, but it didn’t really seem to help. It involved a student who insisted in a summary assignment (and he brought the sheet with him so I did read it) that he was not in fact supposed to summarize an article he read, but just give his own viewpoints. I insisted that if the wording was “summary,” and students were required to read an article as part of the assignment that they were supposed to summarize the article that they read as at least part of the assignment. I then tried to work with the rest of the paper in terms of helping him to organize and give details, but he couldn’t give anything but generalizations without actually providing summary and details from the article. This in conjunction with his own desire was to obtain additional articles to help him write what he believed would be a better summary made the appointment over in about 10 min.

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