"Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is of course a truly volatile issue in teaching memoir or the personal essay, because there's no pretense that the narrator is a character."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Debra Monroe

#Teaching Quotes #Writing Quotes #Character Quotes

“What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.”
“When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.”
“Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.”
“Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.”
“They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.”

Source : N. Scott Momaday, Matthias Schubnell (1997). “Conversations with N. Scott Momaday”, Univ Pr of Mississippi
“I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.”
“My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces the best crop, depend upon it they will always be sure till lay it on ***** thick ***** they can.”
“Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.”

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