Comments on: Dramatic Arc https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2016/04/20/dramatic-arc/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Fri, 29 Apr 2016 01:36:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Jane https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2016/04/20/dramatic-arc/comment-page-1/#comment-73075 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 01:36:30 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2955#comment-73075 My loss then! If only I had taken a class with you 😛

I see some of your advice on the sidebar here. Had I followed it, I think I would have gotten more out of the history classes that I took 🙂

]]> By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2016/04/20/dramatic-arc/comment-page-1/#comment-73074 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 01:08:19 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2955#comment-73074 Coincidentally, I do explicit instruction in how to read to Swarthmore students. 🙂

]]> By: Jane https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2016/04/20/dramatic-arc/comment-page-1/#comment-73072 Sun, 24 Apr 2016 13:42:40 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2955#comment-73072 I mean, my experience is that you guys assign a ton of reading! I only ever took one humanities class at a time, so at least it was a change of pace. I did actually read everything, but with longer assignments I certainly didn’t read everything closely. I honestly don’t know how I could have. When I read The Human Condition for pleasure I never read more than a chapter a day and I think it took me around three months to finish the book, maybe a little longer. I mean, you can read faster than my first example. I think I read Discipline and Punish during spring break – but that was the only intellectual work I did all week. If there is a way to read closely that is not exhausting and time consuming I never learned it. It might feel wrong to do explicit instruction in how to read to Swarthmore students, but perhaps some of us need it.

]]> By: Matt_L https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2016/04/20/dramatic-arc/comment-page-1/#comment-73071 Sat, 23 Apr 2016 11:48:17 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2955#comment-73071 Bummer. You know I have yet to come up with an effective way to actually convince, cajole, coerce, all the students into reading a whole book for seminar. Seems like only 50% can get it done, even on a good day. Most of the time its like 30%. My condolences.

]]> By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2016/04/20/dramatic-arc/comment-page-1/#comment-73070 Thu, 21 Apr 2016 10:31:32 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2955#comment-73070 In reply to Ian.

Binyavanga Wainaina, One Day I Will Write About This Place.

]]> By: Ian https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2016/04/20/dramatic-arc/comment-page-1/#comment-73069 Thu, 21 Apr 2016 10:09:17 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2955#comment-73069 Yup. What was the book?

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