Rohan Maitzen
Department of English
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Category Archives: This Week In My Classes
It’s June Already? Taking Stock
As a member of Jo VanEvery’s Academic Writing Studio (which I highly recommend, by the way, if you need a bit of structure, encouragement, and/or advice), I receive her helpful weekly newsletter by email. Last week’s had the timely subject … Continue reading
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This Week In My Classes: Loose Ends and Lessons Learned
Classes have been over for a while now, but the business of the teaching term isn’t quite over. I mentioned before that one unfortunate feature of marking season is academic integrity hearings: I had more this year than I’ve ever … Continue reading
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This Week In My Classes: #amgrading
Last week and this week, actually. That’s not quite all I’ve been doing since classes wrapped up on April 10: there has been a spate of committee work, and also (one of the less pleasant features of this time of term) … Continue reading
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This Week In My Classes: Looking Ahead
As if things in this term’s classes aren’t busy enough (and about to get busier, as next week I get in both sets of term papers and give the final exam for Pulp Fiction) but book orders for next fall were … Continue reading
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This Week In My Classes: Some Good News
The good news isn’t specifically about what’s happening in my classes this week (although I hope there is some connection): it’s good news about my teaching more generally. This week I learned that I am this year’s recipient of the … Continue reading
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This Week In My Classs: Springing Forward
“Springing forward” seems an optimistic way to put the feeling I always get at this time of term that we are hurtling downhill towards its end: papers and tests and proposals come in even as you’re still planning lectures and … Continue reading
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This Week In My Classes: The Meaning of Life
In Pulp Fiction, this is our second and final week on The Maltese Falcon (no, it does not seem like enough time, but we have other work to do too!). Leading up to our discussions of the novel I made a big … Continue reading
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