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\n Dowbrigade has just finished editing, or correcting, his last student
\n paper of the Summer One semester at a Major Boston University.
\n Somewhat ill-advisedly, we volunteered to teach the night section of
\n "Advanced Academic and Professional Writing."<\/p>\n
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\n like teaching the evening sections because, unlike the spoiled scions
\n of privileged prep school families who grace and dis=grace our day programs,
\n the evening students are there because they want to be, are paying their
\n own way,
\n and despite
\n the fact
\n that
\n many come to class straight from jobs in hospitals or donut joints, they
\n always have their homework done and pay attention in class.<\/p>\n
\n they are all advanced enough to sling some serious bullshit
\n when they fire up the old word processor, but not advanced enough to
\n avoid making serious and repeated errors in each and every sentence. Some
\n manage to average almost an error per word, and as a result their first
\n drafts are often a discouraging sea of red ink. We have had students
\n flee the classroom in tears after getting back their first essay.<\/p>\n
\n giving any actual examples, but what the hell is "Actually the humenity
\n already use divers sources but those are not effectually develops" supposed
\n to mean?<\/p>\n
\n at night to "improve" themselves, have an axe to grind, a complex theory
\n to expound or a 247-page doctoral thesis on a Comparison of Patient Perceptions
\n of Single-Payer Health Care Delivery Systems in Three Countries which
\n she desperately needs edited (yes, you, Ofeelia).<\/p>\n
\n few and far between these past few weeks. It is not the additional
\n hours of class each week (on top of our regular teaching load), but
\n rather the stacks and piles of multi-page grist waiting for the old editing
\n mill. As readers may imagine, the Dowbrigade can be a tough critic, especially
\n when students ignore his sage advice, or when he goes off his medication.<\/p>\n
\n how to make any money off of Blogging yet. At any rate, that’s all over
\n for a while, and next week we can go back to
\n the
\n Thursday
\n Night
\n Meetings
\n at
\n Berkman,
\n if they’ll
\n have us. <\/p>\n