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BL
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| Record Number
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704950
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| Doc. No
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b527139
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| Main Entry
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Professor X.
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| Title & Author
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In the basement of the ivory tower : : confessions of an accidental academic /\ Professor X.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Viking,, 2011.
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xxiii, 258 pages ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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067002256X
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: 9780670022564
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-258).
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| Contents
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The 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.
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| Abstract
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As 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.
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| Subject
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College teachers, Part-time-- United States, Anecdotes.
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College teachers, Part-time-- United States-- Social conditions.
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English teachers-- United States, Anecdotes.
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| Dewey Classification
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378.1/2
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| LC Classification
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LB2331.72.P76 2011
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