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Replying to @scalzi
I found authors love talking with my students. I'm confused.
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Replying to @johnCfallon @scalzi
Inviting the author to the school to talk to students is one thing. The apparently popular "write to an author you admire and pour guilt on them in the hopes they will write back" assignment is a terrible idea
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Replying to @word_geek @scalzi
I've had my students "cold call" authors with questions and they've always responded. But it's an extra credit effort, not expected. The original tweet seems dismissive of any effort to be contacted. I hope that's not the case.
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Replying to @johnCfallon @word_geek
Scroll down to the bottom here: https://whatever.scalzi.com/about/publicity-blurb-and-unpublished-work-guidelines/ … And yeah, assigning your students to bother people is not great.
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Replying to @scalzi @word_geek
You wouldn't want students to ask you questions about your work if they're genuinely curious and reading/writing about your work? If being contacted is "bothering" why make it possible?
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Replying to @johnCfallon @word_geek
Yes, you're right, I should sequester myself off from all human contact if I refuse to answer student questions for assignments that they shouldn't have been given by a teacher who doesn't understand why making grades contingent on someone else's indulgence is a shit thing to do.
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Replying to @scalzi @word_geek
You didn't read my previous message. I have never made it mandatory or grade contingent. I just think it's a cold thing to say that budding readers and writers should never contact authors because they're "bothering" you.
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Replying to @johnCfallon @word_geek
I did read it -- "extra credit" is a shitty rationalization for pestering people, especially in an academic environment where *not* taking advantage of extra credit is effectively an academic penalty. Making "extra credit" contingent on someone else is bullshit in any event.
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Dude. There’s a difference between a reader, student or otherwise, contacting a writer of their own volition, with no set requirements or timeline for a reply, and hundreds of teachers asking students en masse to ask writers to meet unpaid deadlines to aid their grades.
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Replying to @fozmeadows @johnCfallon and
You know how you’re busy as a teacher? Imagine other teachers at other schools - in other countries, even - asked their students to cold-call random teachers about your thoughts and jobs, and you had no time for that, but this unknown kid needs a grade.
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Replying to @fozmeadows @johnCfallon and
Even if some of those kids are potentially passionate future teachers and you want to help, if you’ve got a ton of grading due and departmental emails to answer and a field trip to chaperone, you likely won’t be able to reply in the timeframe.
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