I admire their early-birdedness and all that, but seriously.
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Dr. Porter,
I'm in your 2:30 class next semester. Could you tell me the author of the main textbook?
Kim Klueless
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Kim,
The author is Mangini, and the text is called "True Lives of Egyptian Horsemen." It's in our book store in quantity.Dr. P
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Dr. P,
What edition is it?
KK
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K,
It's the only edition, the first.
Dr. P.
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P,
Do you know the name of the publisher?
tx,
KK
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KK,
Yes. I looked it up on Google. It's published by Bedford St. Martin's.
Dr. P
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p --
i found a book by the same author on half.com, but not the one you want. it's alot cheaper than the real textbook, but it's about the same topic. i don't suppose it matters which one i have, does it?
lol
k
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Kim,
The ISBN for the book in our class is 4561243456-X
. It's the main textbook for the class, is available in our bookstore for $45.00, at Amazon.com for 39.55, and BN.com for $41.25. It's the required text for the class.
. It's the main textbook for the class, is available in our bookstore for $45.00, at Amazon.com for 39.55, and BN.com for $41.25. It's the required text for the class. Good luck,
Dr. Porter
Or the student who, soon after registration for spring began (with plenty of seats left in my class), EMailed to say she was having difficulty registering and so would I please complete the process for her ... ?
ReplyDeleteAware, that usually means that they don't meet the requirements or are trying to double book a some period of time. I get lots of "your class which I really want to take overlaps this other class that I have to take. I know for a fact that this other class never goes until your class starts."
ReplyDeleteI used to have some sympathy for the double-bookings until i eventually noticed that the people I cut slack for NEVER EVER actually show up or finish the course. So I'm jumping through administrative hoops for students who just wanted a fall-back plan and had no real interest in taking the class. I don't bother anymore.
ReplyDeleteOddly, this is the first semester (classes start next week) that NO ONE has asked about the textbook(s) for my classes. It doesn't matter that I sent out a blurb about it in December to those who had enrolled-to-date; I always do that and I'd still get questions anyway.
ReplyDeleteEither I'm in a dream or the computing services folks are putting all student-to-faculty Email into a spam folder!
Dammit! Who's reading student email during the break?!?! You're ruining it for the rest of us layabouts!
ReplyDeleteIt's a $40 textbook, and the only text for the class. That's pretty darn cheap to me. I don't think I've ever been able to go under $60 for my own class texts.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why so many students pay for a class and expect to not have to buy (and then read) the textbook.
Too many of my students expect me to spoonfeed them everything and then pitch fits when I don't.
Terry, my well-intentioned friend. You made the mistake by answering the first email.
ReplyDeleteThen there are the students who don't notice they have the wrong textbook until at least four weeks into the semester. I had one who did this and then blamed her father for buying her the wrong book and not rushing off to buy the correct one when she'd discovered his mistake. This is the same student who was about half an hour late to every (early morning, one hour) class and always blamed traffic, parking, etc, when, clearly, she was late because she'd spent so much time on her hair, makeup, and outfits.
ReplyDeleteYeah, what Kim said. I probably would have answered with, "The bookstore has copies of all the required texts for the course" and nothing else.
ReplyDelete"i don't suppose it matters which one i have, does it?"
ReplyDeleteI wonder what she would do if you answered with 'No, it doesn't. The required text is really just a suggestion. Feel free to bring whichever book you like. It doesn't even have to be from the same author. Last semester I had someone bring in the Cat in the Hat. I can't wait to see what you bring! Cheers.'
I don't even assign a textbook, just a suggested grammar/citation handbook, information for which I duly submit, well in advance, to the bookstore, which maintains an online database of textbook assignments for students to consult; students retrieve readings for my classes from library databases and/or the class website, and they write -- a lot. But I *still* get these inquiries. I don't think there's a way to stop them, or the desperate requests that I exceed the course cap because of someone's extremely special circumstances -- even though there's a substantial wait list and the course cap was already raised in a last-ditch effort to balance the budget, and besides, one set of extremely special circumstances sounds much like another; most of our students work long hours at one or more paid jobs and/or have families and/or commute long distances, but I guess they're too busy doing some or all of the above to notice that most of their classmates are, too.
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