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Shannon 🐀 Finck

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4 months

If you’re a student right now, you should know that this is a great time to be a terrible writer. Your teachers see five run-on sentences, three comma splices, and a dangling modifier, and were like “Oh, thank god. This kid is a THINKER! A-.”

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How to explain to students that encountering a single well-crafted, complex sentence that puts a difficult idea succinctly and clearly in an otherwise opaque or messy piece of writing is exciting because those sentences are the happy accidents of human writing, BUT…

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1 year

@seeshespeak Ooh, somebody did the fun parts of planning a wedding before discovering how much everything costs.

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2 years

My pedagogy is assigning at least one thing I’ve never read, effectively forcing 75 people into a book club with me.

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5 months

encountering an entire essay composed of those sorts of sentences immediately feels like too much—like overeating or bingeing—prompting the opposite response and, at the same time, exposing their AI use?

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5 months

I want to make students understand that humans do not actually want technical perfection, especially when it’s masking an absence of creativity, curiosity, or intellectual ambition. Some of us might think we do, but those of us who attend to the learning process know we don’t.

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4 months

@sillyminnow We love to see it! Dare to be mid!

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4 months

@GradFrustrated I teach college students, and we haven’t focused on grammar in our grading in over a decade. Hope this helps!

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9 months

Literally begging university administrators to simply read our CVs instead of asking us to input the same information into some janky software that produces a messy, incoherent version of our CVS.

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@squirtstain I dated lots of guys cooler than me in my 20s, but then I got cooler, and now there are no guys cooler than me.

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1 year

@ashleyrattner They’re “pRoPeRTy oF tHe UNiVerSitY!!1” 🙃

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4 months

@Adele_Quested You can’t always get what you want, but…

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5 months

Now that this is making the rounds, I want to reassure those of you who are neurodivergent that you do not sound like "robots" or "machines" when you write. Y'all don't write like AI! Bad teachers perhaps told you that in the past, but, thanks to AI, I bet they now know better.

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2 months

I’m really struggling to care about doing academic work or to feel like it matters right now. I just want to chill. What is this? Is it permanent?

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1 year

@ask_aubry Once a student asked me to give him another student’s contact information so he could ask her out. Me: “What I’m going to give you is a lecture is on why that’s inappropriate. Take a seat.”

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26 days

25 students is too many for any writing intensive course. More than 25 is unconscionable. The sweet spot is probably like 12-15.

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4 months

@DarkPlebeian It’s hard to explain, but there’s an AI syntax almost no student writers ever use, and teachers are getting better and better at telling the difference even without detection tools (which are sus).

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1 year

@AnnaKrauthamer You have defeated her in the secret elevator challenge and must now take her job. Please report to her office, which is now your office to select which of her books you would like to keep.

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5 months

@LJimLaw Complexity aside, it would certainly take a lot of mental energy to hedge as much Chatbots do. It’s definitely exhausting to read. Maybe this is also part of the debate about complexity in academic writing. I’m only willing to stick with difficult prose to see a cool idea emerge.

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4 months

@GradFrustrated Also teach writing!

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1 year

I'm excited to teach a writing course on labor histories and the future of work in the fall, and I have a lot of great stuff planned (and will share the finalized syllabus if y'all want it), but just in case--what short stories/essays about work do you love?

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@Catherineoscopy This is a whopper of a generalization.

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@Harryson_D B-

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7 months

Unpopular opinion, I guess: when people crowdsource texts for courses they’re teaching—something I’ve done—it’s not because they have no idea what they’re doing, more that they’re curious about how others would approach the course. Seems like a good use of the hellsite actually.

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8 months

A grad student crocheted me this twee apple! 🍎

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25 days

@dee_of_e I hate how AI is making it increasingly difficult to adhere to what we know are best practices.

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1 year

One especially terrible feature of the neoliberal university is the way it makes people feel like they’re foolish for investing in the place where they live and work.

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It’s such bullshit that we’ve replaced weather-related class cancellations with “create alternative assignments and move your classes online,” so in addition to preparing for a natural disaster everyone gets more work.

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10 months

I’m powering through some of the pop novels people have loved recently (Lessons in Chemistry, Tomorrow and…etc.). Predictably, I hate them, but what bothers me most is this tendency to over-explain, excessively signpost, and belabor minor points. I feel insulted as a reader.

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7 months

As a person who teaches a lot of comp & intro lit, and who very much likes teaching these course, but is occasionally permitted to teach an upper level course and relishes it, I’ve been thinking about why people who don’t teach a lot of intro classes hate/refuse to teach them.

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@emmaloffhagen Sure, okay, but I have never heard anyone pronounce it like "nich," and I've lived in the US my whole life.

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6 months

Not the USG Board of Regents voting to raise tuition and fees at every single campus in Georgia while "strongly recommending" that I somehow teach English classes without assigning books in order to "ease the financial burden of college" for my students.

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3 years

Teaching 4 classes is exciting because, at the end of the day, you’re not sure if your body will carry you back to your car.

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2 years

If TAs do your grading (or ungrading), I’m going to need you to exit the ChatGPT chat.

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3 years

@drewmckevitt @CoreyGoergen My partner forgot the word for this the other day and called it the “bolero method,” so that’s what we do in this house now.

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@spencerbeswick I’ve seen enough that I’m just confidently calling it out now, which feels adversarial and doesn’t align with my pedagogy at all, but I don’t know what else to do. I’m not going to waste my time combing through essays generated in seconds by AI. I’m effort-matching now.

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2 years

@DeAnnaBeachley Yes. It's so awful, especially for folks with ADHD out here trying to work without their phone right beside them at all times. Every time I have to receive a push notification I lose at least an hour to some other nonsense on my phone.

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5 months

RIP Elizabeth Freeman, who gave us so much, including this perfect sentence: “To close read is to linger, to dally, to take pleasure in tarrying, and to hold out that these activities can allow us to look both hard and askance at the norm” (Time Binds, xvii).

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5 years

@tuckeve @anniwithane This is the answer we need to the “Why isn’t your work just my work?” crowd.

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1 year

No more satisfying email subject line than “MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED,” is there?

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2 years

Said goodbye to this sweet hound today. 💔 I’m absolutely dying. Send the vibes.

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1 year

Couples flying together who take the aisle and window seats so that people traveling solo are forced to sit awkwardly between you, why are you like this?

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1 year

@no_earthquake I once saw someone’s laptop get broken by a person reclining the seat in front of them, and ever since then, I’ve felt it’s not a thing the seats should do. Like, the problem is that the seats are made to recline when there’s not enough space, not that people do it.

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@LochNessGuy We probably all learn this from whatever embarrassing thing we're reading as teenagers, which is why it's so hard to teach it to students who don't (sometimes won't) read.

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3 months

I’ll just be over here reading 100 pages [of student writing] a day.

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1 year

Conferences are not the problem. The fact that they so often take place in Boston is the problem.

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10 months

@DrSamiSchalk Shampoo and conditioner. I had been using high-end styling products for years but was slow to believe that better cleaning and conditioning products could make a difference worth the price.

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@bexual_healing I was once at a hotel bar where he was staying, and the bartender who served me told me nobody from his party tipped.

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2 years

@Lady_Historian I make an effort to choose the best words to get my point across, and sometimes “fuck” and “shit” are among them.

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10 months

There’s a lobster truck in the hotel parking lot in my hometown.

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4 months

@mmchileanywayso The em dash can handle tough love.

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7 months

The lesson of this academic year has been that in order to be moderately happy, I need to find a way to be okay with sucking more at my job and being okay with it when other people suck at their jobs, too.

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3 years

@jshelat1 If it had gone that badly, the students wouldn’t be looking out for you like that. Students only do that when they feel their relationships with their teachers are important, and if you’re important to your students, you’re doing the thing right. It’s good to be human with them.

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7 months

@argella The most concerning part for me is how often an immediate lack of comprehension becomes a roadblock, a reason for students to stop reading instead of pressing on in hopes of figuring it out as they go. Not understanding something is a reason to keep reading, not a reason to stop.

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9 months

@jzux I, personally, have never been 21.

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3 years

New Student: “Do you skateboard?” Me: “No, but I very much like that, upon meeting me, you thought I might.”

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3 years

I really hope the tenured faculty among us are paying attention as their NTT colleagues in the AAUP & UCW show up to defend tenure. #SaveUSGsRep

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1 month

Not me with the word “neoliberalism” spelled out on the board behind me.

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9 months

Realizing you've been misreading something in real time while teaching it. 💀

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3 years

Honestly, at this point, the teaches of Peaches are more useful than the CDC’s recommendations.

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7 months

But beyond all that lies the sheer pleasure of taking a really deep dive into narrow(er) subject matter, beyond the scope of a generalist, and the pain of being trained as an academic and then routinely denied that pleasure (often as those around us squander it).

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3 years

*sigh* What if I just read the books and didn’t try to write one? *sigh*

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1 year

@azforeman I would say it’s more like “to do anything without protection,” and studying/preparing/learning is being interpreted as protection from failure/a bad grade, which hurts me in my teacherly heart a little.

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7 months

Another obvious answer is that the teaching of intro courses is generally accompanied by a host of workload inequalities and by a dearth of the forms of recognition we, as academics, associate with professional success.

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@matspike I think what’s happened is that people like producing (or rather monetizing) what they think of as “content,” but they’re engaging with “content” created by others less and less, so they’re estranged from the concept of audience.

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11 months

@virtualjew Longevity is an important part of sustainability.

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11 months

What if Gilded Age were about a muppet family trying to break into high society?

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@seanluomdphd @matspike What if, like, a person did that, though? And then offered their take? Isn’t that better?

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1 year

I was literally in a tiki bar when Jimmy Buffett died.

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@clhubes I strongly suspect that hardly anyone actually wants to go out anymore in their 30s and kids just get unfairly blamed.

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3 years

@MegNev I wish they knew that there are multiple reasons/ways to read—that sometimes you read for information, other times you read to get ideas, still other times you read to process difficult feelings or events. It’s not all quizzes and sources and junk. It’s about thinking together.

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9 months

Another argument against large class sizes (that nobody will be able to hear) is that you can’t teach books by small presses because your students won’t find enough copies in circulation. This has a serious impact on what voices and texts are represented in university classes.

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4 months

@oliviastowell My policy, too, hopes to convince students not to use this junk by pointing to the larger context of its creation and use, and so far I think it does persuade some of them.

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1 year

@clhubes It’s also always your “last chance” to get something for like two years.

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1 year

@gabrielledrolet The other day I told someone I was looking for a therapist who was capable of helping me unpack my ambivalence about the act of creation, mine or anyone's, in general.

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10 months

I’m planning a class that I really don’t want to be just full of sad books, but I really, really like sad books.

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2 years

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1 year

Academics, why are we ruining long October by scheduling literally everything between September 20th and November 10th? There's another way to live!

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5 years

@Southldntabby The canon.

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7 months

One obvious answer is that intro classes are harder because there’s less foundational knowledge specific to a particular discipline on which to build.

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Should I be on the job market yet again? Oh, probably. But I also feel that I've already wasted a lot of time during which I could have been doing real work languishing on the stupid job market, so I'm not. These days, I'm trying to do what I can from where I am.

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@snakel3t Yep. A group I volunteer with wanted to provide menstrual products to unhoused women, and our biggest challenge was finding them to deliver the products.

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9 months

Structured, paid research leave for permanent, full-time NTT faculty now. That's the tweet, I guess.

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2 months

@Garrodactyl I turned 40 this year and was suddenly like, “Why all this toiling and striving? For what?” Maybe it’s a midlife crisis!

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1 year

My department offered guidance on the use of AI chatbots. I adapted and expanded it to communicate my priorities to students. Sharing in case it helps anyone. (I'll be doing more primary source research and fewer, more scaffolded assignments with my students this semester, too.)

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@ask_aubry If you’re seeing this, students, it took 25 people liking this for me to notice the typo. You gotta proofread more times than you think.

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1 year

Is it a common experience when falling asleep reading to believe you are awake and reading for a period of time before waking up to discover you are just holding a book, eyes open sometimes(!), while your brain makes stuff up?

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Listening quietly as my students debate whether “that guy from The Bear” is also “the original Willy Wonka.”

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2 years

Academic friends, what do you know (or know how to do) now that you really wish you'd known (or learned how to do) in grad school? I'm compiling a list in advance of a roundtable presentation on this topic for grad students in my department.

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5 months

@mfrankDude Absolutely. I think this is perhaps why AI-generated art also registers as bad/obvious to most people.

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6 months

Like, oh yeah, you're charging them a mysterious $1500 "institution fee," but the Penguin Classics are the problem. Okay.

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2 years

Brings multiple books to the coffee shop; reads tweets.

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10 months

The job demands plenty of yapping about things that don’t interest us at all, to be fair.

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Being a college professor is the dream, dude. $80,000+ per year just to fuckin yap about your interests in a big auditorium

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Students in my LGBTQ+ Literature class this semester created, edited, and published their own open-access journal featuring essays on course readings organized into thematic clusters (modeling their work on ASAP/J, Post45 Contemporaries, etc.). It's neat!

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Like, it’s not that you can’t do this on your own, but we all know it’s better to do it with others and very difficult to do it at all if you’re buried under 97 and half comp essays or whatever.

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Utterly unhinged and self-cannibalizing for a nation’s elders and leaders to attempt to frame its concerned youth as “terrorists.” My god. Touch grass.

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@seeshespeak Glad OpenAI abused all those poorly paid testers so ChatGPT could go on to internalize misogyny anyway!

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6 months

Low key mad at Gen Z for forcing me to type out "capitalization" every time I'm commenting on a paper because if I lazily write "no cap," they just think we're vibin'.

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@TheLincoln Seriously. Whole classes of first-year college students telling me they have never read “a chapter book.” That’s what they’re calling anything longform.

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