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RE: is this for real????
I'm with Nick: I wonder about the context of the "survey" (or whatever it
was) that produced this result. Seems like a novelty item to me,
indicative of little more than the context in which it occurreed.
Clyde
Clyde A. Moneyhun
Assistant Professor, English Department
Director, University Writing Center
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19711
(302) 831-1168
http://www.english.udel.edu/moneyhun/
"Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and
make of it the full meaning of the present life." John Dewey
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Nick Carbone wrote:
>
> I wouldn't worry too much. The survey *invites* students to choose FYC by
> positioning it with real and certainly tragic events. So it's very skewed.
> Students know it's a freebie, a way to poke fun at the course (for most of
> them required).
>
> --
> Nick Carbone, Writers' Center Director
> CSU Writers' Center (http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/WritingCenter)
>
> ncarbone@lamar.colostate.edu
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