Hyperbole for Jane Tompkins' Pedagogy of the Distressed article where she argues that you have to save your ass and not invest so much fucking time in teaching if you're an adjunct.
I was fortunate to encounter people who taught us how to alleviate some of the grading stress, partly by just not assigning so many fucking papers: hard to do when you're teaching comp, but these guys did it. wonder if the english and textual studies department still runs these workshops? invaluable.
At 12:55 AM 6/12/2012, Jordan Carroll wrote:
>It's not uncommon for adjuncts to make less than $2000 per course:
>http://adjunctproject.com/us/
>
>Teaching and preparation don't take up that much time, but the big time
>suck is grading. At my very best, I can get about 4 papers graded and
>commented on per hour. Usually, it's more like 3 an hour. If you have four
>classes of 25 students, that's 33 extra hours for every major assignment.
>On a semester system, you're likely to have at least 4 or 5 papers, plus
>smaller assignments. Adjuncting at 3\3 was often a 40 hour \ week job for
>me, sometimes more, and I was making considerably less than what I've
>received for non-teaching jobs.
>
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>
>Jordan
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