A student who is clearly in a hurry keeps popping into the writing center with questions about his writing. He’s working on his paper in the English computer lab just down the hall:
“Do you indent each paragraph in an executive summary for accounting?”
5 minutes later:
“Would it be ‘which were’ or ‘which was’?”
2 minutes later:
“How many ‘ands’ can you have in a sentence?”
Is this some kind of Alice in Wonderland dream? Could this really be happening? I mean how does one respond to "how many 'ands' can you have in a sentence?" After three one minute visits to the writing center, I ask the student if he might want to print out his paper and let me take a look at it to which he replies, “I’m kind of in a hurry, but I’m working just down the hall if you want to come down.”
7 comments:
Well, teaching is considered by some to be a service industry. Maybe the SWC could sponsor at-your-computer tutoring, for a fee, of course. Service like that doesn't come free.
of course you ran right down didn't you?
Skipped gleefully actually.
I don't usually use these computer-lingo acronyms, but LOL! That's funny.
Ah I love the end of the semester folks.
So what's up? Will you write something...again...already?! I'm starting to have withdrawal symptoms...
Ha! Good story.
Say, can you write up some blog tips for me? I'll be on the web for another hour or so.
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