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001 2010035383
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008 100825s2011 nyu b 000 0 eng
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020 $a9780670022564 (hbk.)
020 $a067002256X (hbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn650210645
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050 00 $aLB2331.72$b.P76 2011
082 00 $a378.1/2$222
100 0 $aProfessor X.
245 10 $aIn the basement of the ivory tower :$bconfessions of an accidental academic /$cProfessor X.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2011.
300 $axxiii, 258 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 251-258).
505 0 $aThe adjunct -- Writing hell -- Revelation -- Compare and contrast -- The four stages of a plot -- Community college -- Remediation -- The good stuff -- The pain -- College as Eden -- Grade inflation temptation -- The textbooks -- An introduction to the research paper -- Life editing -- Resonance -- The writing workshop -- Do your job, professor! -- Grading the teacher -- On borrowing liberally from other people's work -- The college bubble -- Nobody move.
520 $aAs his house starts falling apart in every imaginable way, Professor X grabs first one, then two jobs teaching English 101 and 102-composition and literature-at a small private college and a local community college. This is the story of what he learns about his struggling pupils, about the college system-a business more bent on its own financial targets than the wellbeing of its students-about the classics he rediscovers, and about himself. --from publisher description
650 0 $aCollege teachers, Part-time$zUnited States$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aCollege teachers, Part-time$zUnited States$vAnecdotes.
650 0 $aEnglish teachers$zUnited States$vAnecdotes.