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Comments

Re: GREETINGS, HISTORY MAJOR/GEEK

[(Anonymous)]

Not really the point. They sure as hell are likely to know more than some Ni Barnard fangirl insisting that The White Queen is "historically accurate"

Re: GREETINGS, HISTORY MAJOR/GEEK

[chardmonster]

You'd be surprised. I grade their papers.

Re: GREETINGS, HISTORY MAJOR/GEEK

[cakemage]

I don't doubt it. Grading papers sounds like a colossal nightmare. I used to help my dad grade quizzes (he teaches intro to religion and the occasional intro-level philosophy class at my uni), which was awful enough, but I don't think there's enough money in the world to make me willingly apply critical analysis to some of the papers he gets. He's a little too forgiving in grading, but even he gets the urge to give people a "WTF" as their grade.

Re: GREETINGS, HISTORY MAJOR/GEEK

[chardmonster]

Religion papers must be interesting! The thing is you have to be forgiving with grading, because people are still learning--especially in an intro class. In intro classes you're dealing with students who have

1. Likely either never written a real essay or never written an essay that was properly critiqued (a lot of high school teachers are kind of bad at this and will give kids As just for using long words or teach them weird, overly restrictive practices to avoid plagiarism that makes them write all weird because if another human being has ever written a similar sentence you are apparently copying them. Some guy already wrote "The sky is blue" so you can never say that again)

2. May never take a humanities class again; this is their one writing-intensive class.

It's in upper level classes where you get harder, but even then you should still be nice.

Re: GREETINGS, HISTORY MAJOR/GEEK

[cakemage]

This is all true, especially your first point. Here in Florida, freshmen students are at a particular disadvantage when it comes to writing essays because the FCAT formula that has been drilled into them doesn't in any way prepare them for even intro-level college writing. They basically have to almost completely relearn from scratch how to write essays, which is hard on everyone involved and eats up time that could otherwise be used to learn actual course-related material. It's a frustrating system, and just goes to show why I could never be a teacher. I simply did not inherit my dad's patience in that area. He considers himself to be too forgiving, but thinking about it like this, I wonder if that's always such a bad thing. Hmm.

At any rate, there are usually some pretty well-written and interesting papers in each class, often by students willing to write outside their religious comfort-zones and do research about faiths other than their own. My favorites tend to be the ones focused on Spirited Away (which dad shows in his classes every semester) or Small Gods (which is recommended reading for the course).