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Author Professor X.

Title In the basement of the ivory tower : confessions of an accidental academic / Professor X.

Imprint New York : Viking, 2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  378.12 P942i 2011    ---  Available
Description xxiii, 258 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-258).
Contents The adjunct -- Writing hell -- Revelation -- Compare and contrast -- The four stages of a plot -- Community college -- Remediation -- The good stuff -- The pain -- College as Eden -- Grade inflation temptation -- The textbooks -- An introduction to the research paper -- Life editing -- Resonance -- The writing workshop -- Do your job, professor! -- Grading the teacher -- On borrowing liberally from other people's work -- The college bubble -- Nobody move.
Summary As his house starts falling apart in every imaginable way, Professor X grabs first one, then two jobs teaching English 101 and 102--composition and literature--at a small private college and a local community college. This is the story of what he learns about his struggling pupils, about the college system--a business more bent on its own financial targets than the wellbeing of its students--about the classics he rediscovers, and about himself. --from publisher description
Subject College teachers, Part-time -- United States -- Social conditions.
College teachers, Part-time -- United States -- Anecdotes.
English teachers -- United States -- Anecdotes.
ISBN 9780670022564 (hbk.)
067002256X (hbk.)

 
    
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