Just finished my end of the year survey with my College Comp class. Talk about a talented group. I honestly can say that I have had some of the best writers I've ever had the privilege of teaching.
The highlights - Oh where to begin? How about at the end? Their research papers were top notch. It pained me to knock of a few papers down because of in-text citation and formatting issues, but as I said, "It won't do you any good for me to grade you lightly now when your college professors will hammer you on this stuff." That was one of the hardest tasks for me: evaluating their papers like a college professor would.
Luckily, I had quite a few who could step right into a university setting and hold their own.
I enjoyed this class because they took their writing seriously, yet they had fun with it too. Those things made their work wonderful to read.
I'm going to miss them. Fortunately, I have many signed up for College Comp II.
I also have 60 new writers signed up for three sections of College Comp I.
Now, I just have to go over the feedback my classes have given me, reflect a bit, do some comp theory research, do some more writing, and see how I can fine tune the class for next year.
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