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The Key

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So the students handed in crappy essays that show they can’t follow instructions. But on the positive side, I gave them a quiz that one can only write if one has done all the readings very very carefully, and nobody made a single mistake on the quiz.

This means that I managed to interest them with the texts but failed at getting them interested in the instructions. Maybe I should find a philosophical justification for the MLA format. Something like telling them that using it is a key to the community of scholars.

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  1. Ash Avatar
    Ash

    At least your students handed them in. My students were supposed to turn in their rough drafts for their term papers yesterday and about half of the class couldn’t be bothered to turn in anything.

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    1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
      bloggerclarissa

      Ay yay yay. I hate this kind of irresponsibility.

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      1. cliff arroyo Avatar
        cliff arroyo

        I’ve noticed that each year it’s harder to keep students on track. I’d think that part of it is just getting older, but it actually seems worse recently. I was used to a steady state of goofing off, heel-dragging and last minute slapdashery but it’s just been …. skyrocketing in the last three or so years.

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