Well Chris
at U of Alberta, the writing courses arre workshops, &, yes, I would prefer
just pass/fail, but we have to mark, so indeed, as I explain to the
students, personal bias creeps in, but I try to mark them against
themsleves, ie, in terms of how well they've done over the term (although i
guess I make the decisionas to whether or not they've learned anything &
'improved' -- but I hope on their own terms, more or less).
Some students have done a combined honors in WRITE & English, & produced
some damn fine work to boot.
No lectures. Indeed, the class tie is all discussion, reading of students'
poems & comment by others. Workshopping, in other words. But you can see
some of what I do by going to my homepage & following the links to WRITE
294 & WRITE 494.
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Cinder of the lexical drift.
Susan Howe
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