I think the reason you are to publish your revised dissertation as a book is to liberate it from the committee. Also, while you are doing this you see the shape of the next book come into view. I think this is a good plan generally. This project I have is not the next book … More Four ghostly monsters
As we know, I gave oral final examinations for Spanish 3 for five hours today. I learned that the students are obsessed with the 1950s. – The economy was good in the 1950s and the bills were paid. There was more leisure time. – Many white women would like to live in the 1950s. They … More Brave new students
It seems that in very many lecture courses there are Power Point slides with a bulleted list of points from the textbook that the professor reads aloud, without explaining. Exams are multiple choice and come from the test bank of the textbook. You can tell the test bank you want fifty medium-hard questions and it … More Revelation
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How many funerals of colleagues have you attended in the past six months? I have attended three, the most recent one having been this week. All of these people were old-style professors in different fields of literature. I can tell I am in the 21st century with so many gone. These are people who got … More On funerals
That went very well. It exceeded expectations. Axé.
I have finally discovered a way to make the language students write coherent compositions without using translation programs, and without saying they do not know what to do: give very, very specific instructions, mostly in English. Here, the actual exercise is basically lifted from one of our books (¿Qué te parece esta lectura?) and the … More The well crafted assignment
I actually am in academia for money. Axé.
…what has been going on. There is a certain kind of bad situation I can usually only tell I have because of how I feel from it, not what I see. You have to believe your senses. And I, if I am flashing back as I have kept doing intermittently for about three weeks, am … More Now I see
I keep insisting, and I am sure I am right, that you in fact learned how to do academic work if you have a degree from anything like a reputable institution, and that you got it from the program itself. Where else do you get advice? This is the submerged question, since much of the … More Coda on advice and its sources I
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