Monday, 5 January 2009

4. Essays

Marking essays is rather like reading one of those experimental or postmodernist novels, the kind that tells the same story from several angles, voices and registers.  In this case, we've had a couple of takes on Luther and the Spanish empire, with varying degrees of familiarity with syntax, punctuation and sense of what makes a good essay (or even a sentence).  Some of them were very good indeed; others, less so. 

And, if truth be told, you always learn something from them.
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  1. libgyrl6 January 2009 at 17:26

    Speaking of essays - which of my languishing papers would you like to read first:

    Comic books and civic dialogue – barely started, April deadline
    Denis R. Rogers / Edward S. Ellis Collection – 2008 PCA presentation, standing offer from Dime Novel Round Up for a publication
    Salvation and Demise, Library Imagery in the Motion Picture Se7en – 2007 PCA presentation
    Censorship of Children’s Books story papers to present – work presentation
    Wilbur B. Foshay book plates – class paper, prolly better to focus on general place of Foshay
    Library Cultural Representations – 2006 MPCA
    Sacred Harp and Race

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  2. Matt Shaw6 January 2009 at 22:27

    Has to be Se7en, followed by the book plates. What does this say about me?

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