Prewrite, and First Draft

GLOSSARY (a list explaining or defining difficult or unusual words and expressions used in a text) for “The End of the College Essay. Students Hate Writing Papers. Professors Hate Grading Papers. Let’s Stop Assigning Them. An essay.” by Rebecca By Schuman

line word/expression explanation

2,3 attrition rate percentage of students whose grades decrease

3 MOOC Massive Open Online Course: free, open to anyone, having a huge number of participants

3 deign to feel that doing something is fit/worthy to do

3 exegetic interpretive; explanatory

5 tangentially not clearly related or connected

9 The Sun Also Rises a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway

10 flaccid lacking force; weak

11 non sequitur in not related to what came before; does not follow

12 cursory quickly looking without noticing details

14 grievous outrageous; causing grief

14 abject humiliating; hopeless

20 “contingent” conditional; unsure—quotation marks imply it was sure but did not seem to be

20 sequester go into solitude; withdraw from everything else

21 Madusa-haired a Gorgon monster in Greek mythology who had snakes on her head instead of hair

22 dissipated loss of energy

23 righteously indignant anger and contempt combined with a feeling that it is one's right to feel that way

23 professoriate the office/career of professors

33 protracted extend the time

33 rhapsodically extremely enthusiastic

38 (sic) a previous incorrect word, phrase, passage, etc., has been written exactly as the original

44 One Direction an English-Irish pop boy band based in London

55, 56 William Cronon, Martha Nussbaum, Paulo Freire professors and leaders in education theory

59 schadenfroh German for mean satisfaction of victory

61 St. John’s style tribulations undeserved punishments like St John Chrysostom, early Christian leader (5th c.)

62 belabor to spend an unnecessary amount of time on

65 quashes to put down completely; to do away with

65 pretense false idea or belief; make believe

70 inkling hint