Whether the Weather be: Cloudy (56F/13C)
In the News: Mass shooting in Connecticut (Source: CNN)
Events of Note: Last day of Unit 4
* Last night's Seminar was really good. As an undergraduate student, I was never formally taught citation style. We were provided with a Departmental Handbook and Writing Guide, and we were expected to have read it. After that, to apply it. No further correspondence was entered into on the subject. Aside from yearly cautions about the dire consequences of plagiarism (usually prefaced with a graphic illustrative example of a student from a previous course who had been failed and dismissed for, say, paying an online editorial service to write their paper for them), we were very much on our own. Since, being an Arts student also meant that I was required to write across the disciplines, I had to at least know the basics about many of the different styles-AP, APA, MLA and Chicago. So, I think that we have a gift of an opportunity in these Composition courses @ KU just on that style point.
* I also think that the fact that I had such tough markers and examiners in the course of my previous college studies has now come to serve me well in later years. Even though I was utterly and totally miserable for three years and grew to deeply resent my B.A. degree on many different levels. Still, I persisted, got through it, and I think that I became a better, more intuitive and critical student because of that experience.
* My daughter will be headed up to the Lake and mountain house again this weekend, with my in-laws. My husband and I are planning on following them up there on Sunday, or so, depending upon our work schedules. A swim in the lake might be just what I'm looking for at this point. Just a little further inland, it's considerably warmer. It surely would be a welcomed change to escape this perpetual fog, even for a single day.
Have a great day!. See you on the Boards!.
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