As faculty, you likely spend several hours every week carefully reading, evaluating, and grading student work. Research shows that students report higher course satisfaction when they get better grades and when faculty exhibit “immediacy and presence behaviors”. This finding suggests that giving i...
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“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration!” ‑Thomas Alva Edison
“I discovered the meaning of life but I forgot to write it down.” ‑Hugh Gallagher
You know those times when you are struck with a brilliant, life‐altering, million‐dollar, save‐the‐worl...
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In my literature classes, I found that one of the biggest challenges for students when they sit down to write a paper is finding good quotes from the text. A great solution is to put the full text of a novel on your website (or at least link to one). Students can then use th...