Reading the handwriting on the wall
Cindy Soldan squints, then frowns, squints again, then finally gives up and heads out for a cigarette. Halfway through marking a thick stack of exams, the Lakehead University professor has struck a fundamental impasse: yet another student’s hieroglyphic scrawlings. First-year students in her Major British Writers class express themselves brilliantly in articulate and insightful typed […]
