The Chronicle: Colloquy: Responses

COLLOQUY
THE QUESTION
RESPONSES
BACKGROUND

Which essays are most important for college freshmen to read? Are current anthologies of essays providing students with a sufficiently wide enough range of ideas, writing styles, and authors?

The most recent responses appear first

"Regardless of the question, I'm put off by the use of gendered language used to pose it!..."

: -- Leslie E. Barnes-Young, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Francis Marion University (posted 6/28, 1:12 p.m., E.D.T.)

"Steve Morse writes: 'College freshmen!? Students should already have had exposure to many of these essays in high school!?'..."

: -- Robert J. Wilson, Ph.D. candidate, CUNY Graduate Center (posted 6/10, 9:44 a.m., E.D.T.)

"Students are arriving at colleges from various backgrounds of education..."

: -- Todd Wisenbaker, Teacher - Greater Atlanta Christian School (posted 5/20, 4:50 p.m., E.D.T.)

"As a librarian, writer, and English Literature bibliographer..."

: -- Paul B. Wiener, Librarian - SUNY at Stony Brook (posted 5/18, 4 p.m., E.D.T)

"Same old, same old... By the time most essays which are allegedly au courant reach the published stage,..."

: -- W Waisala, Instructor, Laredo Community College (posted 4/30, 11:55 a.m., E.D.T.)

"The stable fluidity of the freshman composition canon..."

: -- Sharon Wilson, Teaching Associate, California State University, Northridge (posted 4/5, 1:12 p.m., E.D.T.)

"College freshmen!? Students should already have had exposure to many of these essays in high school!..."

: -- Steve Morse, Director for Marketing/Public Information, Illinois Community College Board (posted 4/1, 11:05 a.m., E.S.T.)

"At the risk of sounding evasive, I think a better issue to consider at this point is our pedagogical goals and standards..."

: -- Dion Cautrell, Ph.D. student in Rhet.-Comp. (University of Florida) (posted 4/1, 10:15 a.m., E.S.T.)

"'Canon' means a body of work that exhibits 'timeless quality' (by majority agreement), no?..."

: -- Patrick La Place, General Education Department Chair (posted 4/1, 10 a.m., E.S.T.)

"After reading Bloom's article in College English,..."

: -- T. Allen Culpepper, Instructor of English and Literature (posted 3/31, 9:25 a.m., E.S.T.)

"The answer to the question about which essays college students should read is,..."

: -- Geoff Chase, Dean of Liberal Studies, Northern Arizona University (posted 3/29, 5:20 p.m., E.S.T.)

"What about Notes of a Native Son..."

: -- Allen Jaisle, Associate Dean, The Graduate School of America (posted 3/29, 10:50 a.m., E.S.T.)

"Academe will always resound false unless it teaches Orwell, Emerson, and Thoreau regarding what happens in its own backyard..."

: -- G. Tod Slone, Blacklisted professor (posted 3/29, 10:40 a.m., E.S.T.)