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on the strangeness of my world

pondering the paradox

as a teacher of literature in a state college, i spend most of my time trying to get my students to look beyond biography…

as a teacher of scripture in a restoration movement church, i spend most of my time trying to get the members of the class to pay more attention to person(s) who wrote the various texts we read…

 

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relatedly, what part of the phrase: no internet sources (except scholarly articles found on JSTOR and ProjectMUSE) do students not understand?

i think it’s the NO and INTERNET, but i could be wrong

here are two i’ve gotten so far:
a vacation booker
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though both pale in comparison to the biography of kinsey taken from an S&M lingerie e-store.

I bet they’d understand it better if you deducted a letter grade for every www. ... .com that appears in their footnotes. Ruthlessness is an underrated quality in a lit prof, but Oh! how satisfying it can be!