For whom is student evaluation of teaching necessary?
What we euphemistically call student evaluation of teaching is, in fact, a “Customers Satisfaction Survey.”
2w ago
So, ChatGPT can write? Ahem!
The correlation between writing and technology is as old as writing, for writing IS technology. Technological advances such as papyrus, the printing press, the mechanical pencil, the fountain pen, and the typewriter have complemented writing.
11m ago
ChatGPT and Writing: A Deadly Combination!
When it comes to writing, ChatGPT is a BIG nothing
1y ago
Some Writing Instruction Re-considered
Writing is not an art suddenly discovered. It’s a craft gradually developed. Writing–both creative and critical– is formulaic, the way math is.
3y ago
2020 in Retrospect: Reinventing the university in a post-pandemic world
Why does the year 2020 still linger around? The Covid-19 pandemic has brought our civilisation to its knees this year. We’re already tired, scared, and hopeless.
3y ago
Covid-19 pandemic and the paradoxes of universities
We are almost at the tail-end of the year 2020. What a year this has been! We haven’t lived it.
3y ago
On Vocabulary in Writing
Back in the mid-90s when I was majoring in English literature at a public university in Dhaka, Bangladesh, I was a cricket buff. For the Bangladeshis, cricket was a transnational love affair in the 90s.
3y ago
Covid-19 pandemic and the economics of higher education
Money can’t buy knowledge, but the knowledge industry of the modern world, centred in our universities, runs on money. Universities worldwide are money-strapped now.
3y ago
June 15, 2019
On the Craft of Sentencing
I teach English at a private university in Dhaka, Bangladesh, having attended universities on three continents. I’m persuaded to think as such that I know what a university is and does. I wish I did! Joe Moran in First You Write a Sentence claims, “A university is a factory
May 18, 2019
On Grammar in Writing
I always tell my students that I’m not their language nanny. I’m an educator, and I deal with content. Ironically, however, I blue-pencil as many errors–mostly grammatical–as I can while checking their assignments. Mangled grammar turns me off. That’s understandable. Writing initiates a verbal transaction
April 20, 2019
On (Dis)connection between Reading and Writing
Back in 2005 in California, I was reading Edward Said’s Power, Politics, and Culture. This book is a collection of twenty-eight interviews
March 2, 2019
Deconstructing Genre in Writing
Does a piece of writing have a sex? Not really! It perhaps has a gender, which in French is genre. When it comes to distinguishing one
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