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In the writing class, I'm going to be more insistent on deadlines for turning in stories, and will use grades as the only weapon I have to enforce discipline of that kind.
In the sf/fantasy literature class, I will (when I do it again) lecture more to establish a common view of literature and vocabulary of criticism, before turning things over to the students for presentations. I think the class worked well, but ... not as well as I had hoped.
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quote:In the sf/fantasy literature class, I will (when I do it again) lecture more to establish a common view of literature and vocabulary of criticism, before turning things over to the students for presentations.
OSC, as a Ph.D. lit student, I'd be interested in hearing more about this. Did you feel like the class didn't proceed with a solid collective grounding in "theory?" Or was it something else?
I'd be really interested in taking such a class, although my experience is that a lot of "literary" people look down too much on sf/f and a lot of sf/f people (oddly enough) look similarly down on the literary "ivory tower" for it to happen (well) very often.
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quote:In the writing class, I'm going to be more insistent on deadlines for turning in stories, and will use grades as the only weapon I have to enforce discipline of that kind.
In Bootcamp, you used a morning star. None of this mamby-pamby "grade" nonsense. It was, "You have 24 hours to write a story. Those who fail in this will be. . . dealt with."
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Scott I'm not so sure that such...techniques would be an effective form of getting good papers, but they sure would have them done in time. Posts: 1941 | Registered: Dec 2005
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I'd say a good clubbing would be quite effective. Of course then you have problems with matriculation attrition.
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<bump> Because OSC seems to have been posting some tonight. I'd be really interested to hear about your course--what worked, what didn't, and why.
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