October 1, 2004
Analyze, Don't Summarize
By MICHAEL BÉRUBÉThe first time a student asked me about my "grading system," I was nonplused -- and a bit intimidated. It was an innocent question, but I heard it as a challenge: I was a 25-year-old graduate student teaching my first section in an English-literature class at the University of Virginia, and I really didn't know what my grading system was. Nor did I feel comfortable saying, "Well, it's like Justice Stewart's definition of pornography,
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