Monday, October 29, 2007

Letters to Next Year's Class

At the end of each College Writing I class at Franklin Pierce, I ask students to write letters to future CWI students, sharing their experience and advice as college writing experts. Here are the two letters that my students wrote tonight.
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Dear You Who Should Have Known Better:
Classroom atmosphere and expectations:
  • Turn up
  • Speak up-join in
  • Bring your stuff--try reading it first
  • Turn off cell phones (no texting)
  • Apparently no sleeping
  • Do the assignments (even if it's crap)
  • Do not turn in crap for instructor draft
  • Tracy expects you to be 100% here
Balancing act:
  • DON'T take two classes
  • Do not expect to have a social life
  • Expect to put in 12-16 hours on essays
  • Do NOT Wait until the night before
  • Don't review Dawn's papers EVER! (pay someone else to do it or give it to
    Nate)
  • Two classes are too hard--brain drain, no sleep, Red Sox in the World
    Series.
  • Do not take class through the Super Bowl

Good luck!!

Cliff L, Hank & Dawn B, Chance


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If I Knew Then What I Know Now:

If I knew then what I know now then it would be how much time to plan for, for assignments. I would definitely work ahead and try not to fall behind. I would spend more time on assignments. I would spend more time on final drafts.

How much time outside of class do you think a new student should expect to spend on their assignments?

For homework reading assignments you should expect 45 minutes to an hour for readings and journal entries. I would spend 8 to 16 hours for essays. Definitely do not take two classes unless you don't have a job or family.

Nick, Linda, Nate, Beth

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You can read the letters from the October '05 class on the old IC 105 blog at http://ic105.blogspot.com/2006/10/letter-to-next-years-college-writing-i_25.html. Read additional CWI "Letters to Next Year's Class" letters at my academic website at http://academics.keene.edu/tmendham/FPC.htm.

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