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Next Time, Fail Better
How can you become a better learner? By Paula M. Krebs (Wheaton) Humanities students should be more like computer-science students. I decided that as I sat in on a colleague’s computer-science course...
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Becoming a ‘Stylish’ Writer: Attractive Prose Will Not Make You Appear Any...
How can you write better? By Rachel Toor (Eastern Washington) When I watch creative writers perform, I hear a host of mostly unspoken questions. In their body language, self-presentation, jokes, and...
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Some Artists Really Are Too Cool for School
Is higher education the best thing for everyone? By David Yaffe (Syracuse) I just finished teaching a poetry class in which nearly every poet had a degree from the Ivy League or Seven Sisters. But...
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A Song of Vice and Mire
What do academics do wrong? By Rob Jenkins For fun, I’ve been reading George R.R. Martin’s marvelous fantasy epic, A Song of Ice and Fire, about a medieval-ish kingdom and its wars and intrigues. If...
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The Future Is Now, and Has Been for Years
How will open online courses affect the future of education? By James O’Donnell I think I taught the first MOOC in history. It was the spring of 1994. I call it the best idea I ever had in the shower....
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The Best-Laid Teaching Schemes
What do academics do wrong? By James M. Lang (Assumption) Over winter break, I made the decision to experiment with my survey course, which covers British and Irish literature from the end of the 18th...
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You’ve Got Mail. And Better Things to Do.
How can we communicate more effectively? By Jason B. Jones (Central Connecticut State) Midway through his career, my father moved from the faculty of his community college into administration, where...
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Keyword: Placement
Do we have a moral obligation to care about our students’ futures? By Leonard Cassuto (Fordham) We can all agree, I expect, that the practical goal of graduate education is placement of graduates. But...
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Creative Plagiarism
Is imitation a form of flattery – or stealing? By Paula Marantz Cohen (Drexel) In recent years, I have come across something that I call creative plagiarism. Almost every time I teach fiction-writing,...
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Talk Onto the Page
How can you write better? by: Peter Elbow (UMass) I got interested in writing because in my first try for a PhD at Harvard, I gradually couldn’t write. I had to quit before I was kicked out and felt...
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