{"id":9321,"date":"2009-12-17T11:05:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T18:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9321"},"modified":"2009-12-17T11:05:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T18:05:44","slug":"why-i-hate-grading-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9321","title":{"rendered":"Why I Hate Grading Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to one of my students, in a paper he wrote meant to talk about the different approaches to history in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men<\/em><\/a> and Island<\/a>, <\/em>edited by Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim and Judy Yung, China has historically been infused with a “racial ideology of male masculinity” and that is why so many “Chinese Americans believe in racial inequality.” I wish I could quote the entire two sentences for you; they are truly precious. It’s not just the poor quality of this writing per se that gets to me, though, it’s that phrases like “racial ideology of male masculinity” appear all over the essays I have been getting from far too many of the students in the literature class I have been teaching–as if the students were choosing one word from column A, two from column B, etc. in order to come up with a sentence that sounds so intellectually profound that I won’t notice it doesn’t really mean anything. It is depressing and debilitating when the papers handed in by my freshman composition students are, in many ways, better written than the ones handed in by the students in an advanced literature class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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