Day three of my professor career (I know I moved some stuff into the office earlier, but this is the third day that I’ve spent on campus, all day) is under way, and I’m still enjoying the task of re-creating my composition syllabus. ?For now I’m not going to be doing my UGA routine, teaching old books and having my students write about them. ?At Emmanuel, there’s some effort to keep the experience of first-year comp more consistent across the department (an impossibility, I’m sure, at UGA, with its hundred-plus sections of comp taught by rookies alongside career adjuncts), so I’m working within a framework established before I got here. ?So by definition, I’m operating as a conservative this semester, even as I leave for a season those books that got me branded UGA English’s traditionalist.
The most interesting thing about this is finally learning to teach and–when I’m actually in the classroom–teaching those papers that I didn’t assign as a TA because I didn’t have to. ?I’m going to have to do the image-analysis paper, the summary paper, and other things that I declined at UGA in favor of more focus on argument, argument, argument. ?It’ll be an interesting semester, I think.
