For Fall and Spring, have students turn in final typed paper on turnitin on first day of last week. On that day, give them a two-part in-class final to be written in blue book due on last day of class.
For Summer, the Final Blue Book Exam will be also be two parts.
For final blue book exam, you might show a video like a Ted Talk. I'm thinking of Sandra Aamodt's lecture on weight gain.
You might write a lecture about the hockey goalie and the martial arts instructor as analogies to dynamics between students and teachers, especially as students come to college with severe grammar deficits.
The hockey goalie is intimidating, discouraging, humiliating, overwhelming, and he promotes helplessness and despair.
Imagine going to the gym weighing 1,000 pounds with no knowledge of nutrition and exercise, and you have 16 weeks to look your ideal.
A martial arts instructor speaks the truth about the person's condition, but is helpful, instills self-discipline, and is inspiring.
Some conflicts: 85% of students have severe grammar deficits. 90% don't proof read. They don't know how if they did.
How can they get a higher belt?
We're trying to encourage a narrative of economic class ascent. Or what is called upward mobility.
You might tell them about your friend Jesse who dropped out of PhD program.
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