My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student

Author:Nathan, Rebekah [Nathan, Rebekah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2006-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

“What will be the form of exams?”

“Are the quizzes on the Internet?”

“Can we access quizzes beforehand?”

“Will the final paper be informational or persuasive?”

“What is the minimum number of sources that should be on the final paper?”

“Do you want the first essay typed?”

“Do we have to do the questions for next time?”

“Do you want a written answer to the questions?”1

One particularly sensitive community college professor told me, “I never use professional jargon in my classes, because if my students didn’t understand what I was saying, no one in the class would ever ask me.” As a student, I realized that he was right. “What does that mean?” is, incredibly, just not the kind of question that an American college student would ask.

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