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Re: 20K - which chapts to skip? (sorry 4 the blasphemy)

From: David Merchant <merchant~at~LATECH.EDU>
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:49:46 -0600
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Resent-Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:50:02 -0600 (CST)

At 11:55 PM 1/1/2008, you wrote:
>Hi David--
>
>The most skippable chapter BY FAR is II 7 -- lengthy catalogs of
>marine fauna in the Mediterranean with a little vulcanism midway to
>break the monotony.

Aye, they would rather read ketchup labels than that, I agree. Though
I may have to summarize the vulcanism part for them (I like that part myself).

>Next your engineering majors engineers can feasibly duck these
>"traveling chapters." (I.e., these are quiet interludes between the
>big adventure scenes:

I agree. This leaves, IMHO, a rather reasonable amount of text left
over for them to read in 7 weeks (heck, I may actually change it to 6
weeks). I am thinking of having some of the skipped chapters as
presentation choices - where the students can choose, for example,
the discussion on subsurface currents or the scheme for classifying
and compare and contrast that with how modern science views the matters.

>As for the chapters your budding engineers absolutely MUST NOT MISS,
>they are: I 12-13 (how the Nautilus works), I 15 (how the diving
>gear works), II 11 (how things could potentially go wrong) and II
>15-16 (how things DO go wrong).

Not a worry, I 100% agree with you on that - those are Must Reads.

>I hope this is helpful.

Y'all been right helpful (I'm practicing my Southern - it comes
slowly to me). Thanks! I'm looking forward to seeing how this
experiment works.

TTFN
David

-- 
Instructor, Department of English.
Louisiana Tech University  

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