Bob puts the “Incomplete” in perspective: If you need to give a student an Incomplete, please make sure you fill out the requisite form and enter the “I” grade in Banner. The Catalog says that an “I” grade “indicates that the student for non-academic reasons was unable to complete the requirements for a course.” I [...]
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I haven’t taught technical writing in a number of years, so I figured a cool way to begin the class would be to try to figure out just what we mean by “technical writing.” Most definitions I have found, like this one at docsymmerty, suggests that technical writing makes varying degrees of technical information accessible [...]
South Again
Today, despite the cool weather, I donned my new jacket and, once again, headed south. My destination: the 25th annual conference for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. Walter, Tom, and I are to give a panel on Lem’s Solaris at the conference in Ft. Lauderdale, and I decided that I needed [...]
M$.I.T.
“Today, four years into the five-year partnership, the protests are over and Microsoft technology is firmly entrenched at MIT.” This has to be one of the most thoroughly nauseating and depressing articles I have read in a while. At least everyone at MIT isn’t fooled, but that doesn’t seem to make much of a difference. [...]
Poor English
Peter Jones of The Specator laments what he sees as a disturbing trend in university English departments: jargon and illiteracy pad the written language into an all but unusable and sloppy form, making writers akin to unthinking machines. Keep it simple, Jones via Orwell argues, so language may remain dynamic and expressive, not a means [...]
iPods in GA!
In a article today (thanks, A!), MacCentral reports that Georgia College & State University is using iPods in an innovative way. Two classes expanded their interdisciplinary curricula to include music, lectures, and course information to be disseminated by iPods: Two iMacs were placed in separate computer labs to serve as the “mother ship” for student [...]
