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I'm having some trouble grading because I don't really have a sense of what D or F work is. Also, since no one is showing more than one or two aspects of the independent thought/command of English/structured argument trinity, I keep giving a B-range grade to anyone showing any of these--and most people are hitting at least one. This is a deeply confusing process. It doesn't help that they all chose to write 3 pages on the role of Faith in "Goodman Brown." That topic's next to impossible to get right (neither the professor nor I did, talking about it), and just as impossible to not make some obvious points about. I'm fighting the temptation to just grade based on their way with English, since the presence or absence of that is a) palpable and b) presumably will be pretty consistent across the term. But we're here to judge progress, aren't we? Or to reconfirm previous (and long-internalized) pigeonholing, I can't quite remember.

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Pew Research Center for the People & the Press survey conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates. June 19-July 2, 2003. N=1,201 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.

"Compared with the past presidents, do you feel that Bill Clinton will turn out to have been one of the very best, better than most, not as good as most, or definitely worse than most of them?"

Pew, don't mix axes. Also, the Press are included in the People, weather robots and Lou Dobbs excepted.