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She does say that people who put an apostrophe in the wrong place, when they ought to know better, deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave, but it’s probably mostly in fun. —Oliver Pritchett reviews Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by…

Michael Jackson Aging

If Michael Jackson did not have all his surgery over the years, this is how he might look at the age of 45. —Michael Jackson Aging (ForArtist.com) Click the link to see the images… I’m too lazy to make thumbnails tonight. Similar:One of my undergrad lit papers. Dot-matrix printed, with hand-written instructor annotatio…AcademiaSemantic ablation: Why AI…

College Cost Central: A Resource for Parents, Students, & Taxpayers Fed Up With the High Cost of Higher Education

America’s higher education system is facing a crisis. Decades of dramatically increasing costs, in both good economic times and bad, are threatening to push the dream of college out of reach for millions of students and families. —College Cost Central: A Resource for Parents, Students, & Taxpayers Fed Up With the High Cost of Higher…

The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age

If students cannot find the answers but must make the answers, they are less apt to pass off others’ ideas as their own. The secret is to pose or ask students to pose questions or problems and decisions which have never been adequately answered. —Jamie McKenzie —The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery…

'That Damn Bird'

There are some things that the birds do that, colloquially speaking, “just blow us away.” We were training Alex to sound out phonemes, not because we want him to read as humans do, but we want to see if he understands that his labels are made up of sounds that can be combined in different…

Plagiarized Essay

Dear Professor Jerz, Associate Vice-President Rodd Webb has forwarded me your concerns about the reproduction of your work on a York based website without proper citation. I am writing first of all to apologize for York’s delay in responding to your concerns. The essay has now been removed from the website, and the issue of plagiarism…

Making Slow Progress on MT Resurrection

Making Slow Progress on MT ResurrectionLiteracy Weblog) Dave my ISP has made a copy of the whole blogs.setonhill.edu website the way it was this morning, and backed up the last working version of the site (from about five days ago, when comments stopped working). Already I’ve gotten five e-mails from bloggers reporting that they can’t…

INTJ: Mastermind

INTJ – “Mastermind”. Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population. Take Free Myers-Briggs Personality Test INTJ: Mastermind I think the Myers-Briggs Personality Test is copyrighted material, so I wonder about the legality of this online version. Found via Kate Cielinski…

Thanksgiving and Spring 2004 Preview

Tomorrow (Thursday) will be Thanksgiving Day here in the U.S. — a time for turkey feasts and family gatherings. I’ll probably blog a bit when I get the chance, but I’m also preparing syllabi for next semester. I’ll be teaching the second half of “Seminar in Thinking in Writing,” a course in “Media Aesthetics” (the…

Miss Pennsylvania Pageant

—Miss Pennsylvania Pageant (Sugarpacket) My student Karissa Kilgore is participating in the Miss Pennsylvania pageant this weekend. She had hoped to use her weblog as a way to keep her family informed, but alas since MT won’t let us post comments, she’s missing an opportunity to let her friends and family cheer her on. If anybody…

done!

—done! (dr jill/txt) Congratulations to Jill Walker, whose Ph.D. defence was closely watched in certain parts of the blogosphere. Similar:#PPTPlaytime adaptation of The Merchant of Venice.Top — nonverbal addition with Jessica an…DramaSpring 2023 Grades: Submitted! (I only had 3 last-minute submissions to mark today.)AcademiaIn-home schooling popularity slipping across stateWe were on our way out the door…

Like Circus Ponies?

Untenured radical flirts attend MLA meetings in skirts, feathers, tassels and suits, with leatherette boots Rendered wholly from Savile Row shirts —Kieran Healy (see first comment) —Like Circus Ponies? (Invisible Adjuct) Similar:We're Teaching Books That Don't Stack UpOur provost sent this link to English fa…AcademiaInto the depths of code. Algorithmic archaeologies and cave fantasies in video…