So Far So Good
Here's a quote from one of my student's blogs:
"I'm not sure what to expect of the instructor anymore. I've never seen a syllabus with the word 'shit' in it before."
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I love my syllabus. Regarding their blogs and general outside-of-class writing, I challenged them to always write their best. Here's my favorite part of the challenge:
"Furthermore, imagine how weirded out your friends would be if you composed articulate, thought-out text messages instead of that God-damned techno-shorthand plague: LOL, U R 2 QUT, BOI!!1 TTYL, 4 SHIZL MAY B 2MORROW @ENG.
They’d be like, “WTF?!?! U R 2 CR4ZY, GRRL!!1 4 KEGGER @ PHI SI & BW’S L8R!!1
Et cetera, et cetera.
Don’t blog like this. You fail if you do--like, the whole class."
So much for Randall's prototype syllabus.
"I'm not sure what to expect of the instructor anymore. I've never seen a syllabus with the word 'shit' in it before."
!
I love my syllabus. Regarding their blogs and general outside-of-class writing, I challenged them to always write their best. Here's my favorite part of the challenge:
"Furthermore, imagine how weirded out your friends would be if you composed articulate, thought-out text messages instead of that God-damned techno-shorthand plague: LOL, U R 2 QUT, BOI!!1 TTYL, 4 SHIZL MAY B 2MORROW @
They’d be like, “WTF?!?! U R 2 CR4ZY, GRRL!!1 4 KEGGER @ PHI SI & BW’S L8R!!1
Et cetera, et cetera.
Don’t blog like this. You fail if you do--like, the whole class."
So much for Randall's prototype syllabus.
posted by Mason @ 2:32 AM
4 Comments:
At 3:11 PM,
Anonymous said…
To Rud is divine.
At 10:17 PM,
Chad said…
I think you need to change your links over there--mine is no longer accurate. It should say, "Chad Stands In Awe Of My Mad Teacher Skillz."
Seriously dude, I hear you on the whole unabashed complimenting thing, so allow me to give you one. You put a CRAZY amount of time into your comp class. Your students are absurdly fortunate not only to have a teacher who's funny and can work a pair of shoes that he has an unhealthy obesession with, but one that is dedicated to making sure they take a maximum amount of knowledge and skills from your class. I look up to you, man.
Now get those blisters looked at!
At 10:29 PM,
Mason said…
Hold up a sec, Chad. I'm just calling Amanda real quick to let her know there's a new man in my life and that it's not her fault or anything: it's love. What can ya do, right?
At 5:20 PM,
Michael David MacBride said…
laugh. i have yet to put any "bad words" on my syllabus... however, i did drop the f-bomb on the first day of class. there were some shocked faces.
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