Ode on a Grecian URL

I will keep all students' exams in my office--7134 Helen C. White--for at least a semester, until they catch my eye and I recycle them. (Chances are that I won't toss them until I switch offices or get a real professorial job in, say, four or five years. So if, four years hence, you want to see how you did on your final you're welcome to retrieve it.)

However, as I am rarely in my office, you should probably email me to let me know how you want to pick your exam up. I can pin your exam to the board outside my office, carry it with me to my office hours next year, meet you in a coffee shop at your convenience to talk through it with you, whatever you like.

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I doubt many of you are so dedicated to my lively posts to continue reading long after your grades have been delivered, but if you are still among my audience then you might expect at least a few more posts before I shutter this blog in two weeks or so--

• First, I want to give you a sense of the range of writing styles that earned full credit for the essay questions, so you have a sense of the kinds of "perfect" there are out there.
• Second, I want to give you a quick breakdown of the grades so you can get a sense of where you fit into the class in general and also a sense of how the class improved--or didn't--from essay to essay and from exam to exam. I have some graphs to share with you. Graphs, indeed!
• Third, I have a few notes on problems that recurred in the second essays, problems you might want to avoid when you write future essays.
• Fourth, I have some recommended reading for you if you're hankering for more books like Middlemarch or Frankenstein. Also on this list are some grammar books you might find amusing (amusing, I swear) and other books to flesh out the Best English-language Literature list that Middlemarch caps
• Finally, I think I'll probably point you toward my next class blog, because if you're reading my posts that far after the semester you might as well learn where to pick up for next semester.