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At the start of my teaching career, when I was fresh out of graduate school, I briefly considered trying to pass myself off as a cool professor. Luckily, I soon came to my senses and embraced my true identity as a young fogey.
After one too many students called me by my first name and sent me email that resembled a drunken late-night Facebook post, I took a very fogeyish step. I began attaching a page on etiquette to every syllabus: basic rules for how to address teachers and write polite, grammatically correct emails.
Over the past decade or two, college students have become far more casual in their interactions with faculty members. My colleagues around the country grumble about students' sloppy emails and blithe informality.
[...] Sociologists who surveyed undergraduate syllabuses from 2004 and 2010 found that in 2004, 14 percent addressed issues related to classroom etiquette; six years later, that number had more than doubled, to 33 percent. This phenomenon crosses socio-economic lines. My colleagues at Stanford gripe as much as the ones who teach at state schools, and students from more privileged backgrounds are often the worst offenders.
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Source: The New York Times
(Score: 2) by Soylentbob on Tuesday May 16 2017, @05:14PM (2 children)
From summary:
syllabus: basic rules for how to address teachers and write polite, grammatically correct emails.
Your text:
[...] sure as death taxes and Republican corruption did NOT talk to ANY of my teachers [...]
If you could sprinkle some punctuation onto your posts, I believe your claim ;-) (Sorry, could not resist; I usually have enough spelling- and other errors in my posts as well. But as a tired, slow non-native English reader I had to read three times to understand there is no "death tax", but "death, tax and Republican corruption")
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @05:27PM (1 child)
the discriminating english user demands the Oxford comma [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1) by purple_cobra on Wednesday May 17 2017, @12:20PM
The "Oxford comma" is an abomination, but it works quite well for fooling people into thinking you've had a more expensive education than is actually the case. ;)