Best part of teaching a class on #emojis: Reading student term papers about emojis! #linguistics #amGrading #academicChatter

The single most important thing I want students to learn about academic writing is that your paper is not a mystery novel! Please state your results right there in the introduction! #amGrading #academicWriting #academicChatter #ice515

Ugh my least favorite part of grading: "When do I start calling it plagiarism?" #amGrading #academicChatter

Student tries (and fails) to solve an integral by substituting u=x.

Yeah, rebranding won't work here.

No, dear students, “citizen” is not a synonym for “inhabitant.” #AmGrading

Not-infrequently-expressed by my students: "I never knew that reading James Baldwin was exactly what I needed." #AmGrading #AmTeaching #StudentsSay

Speaking of #marking student papers (we should have a song, like: The Twelve Days of Grading"):

When (as will inevitably happen all too often), you come across a paper in which the student obviously did not follow directions, what do you conclude?

I try to be as loose and unconventional as the next professor, but there's nothing like a nice laying-out-the-territory opening paragraph that winds up with a pithy, specific and engaging thesis statement right there at the end. It's a convention because it works. #AmGrading

Grading the midterm for my class and astonished to see so many students positing 'email' as an example of a recent coinage. #linguistics #AmGrading