How freshman comp courses have weaponized academic citation by Prof. Young

“Here’s the scenario: you are an adjunct faculty member, which is the case for the majority of people who teach first-year writing, and which means you must teach more courses than is advisable if you’d also like to eat.

You are staring at 125 six- to eight-page freshman comp papers that must be graded before next week. That’s between 750 and 1,000 pages of paper you must not only read but comment meaningfully upon. Oh, and those papers are kind of a mess. Most of them do not evidence basic knowledge of sentence boundaries, let alone exhibit arguable theses or logical development or other forms of higher-order thinking.” See more of UW-Green Bay Assistant Prof. (English) Jennie Young’s essay via How freshman comp courses have weaponized academic citation (opinion), Inside Higher Education.

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