Louis Schwartz

I agree! I will more than likely take hat approach. I got my first paper back with an A on it and I seriously felt cheated. There were no comments, notes or anything else that indicated he actually read it. Some would think "whatever" and just take the A. Not me- I'm paying for school and I want 4 hours worth of writing graded properly. I don't blame you. Some people just don't do their jobs fully. It's not always easy to say a lot when the class is large and the prof has no assistants (I don't know if either is true in this situtation), but he ought to be offering at least some commentary and some engagement with both the content and the style. Louis

I don't know what sort of expectations your prof has or what he thinks the purpose of his question is, but if it were MY classroom, the "A" essay would be the one that complicates the over-simplification of the the question: "While there's some truth in the dichotomy...[blah, blah, blah, the basic examples etc], there are some important ways in which the Romans did think and the Greeks...[etc., with some telling examples drawn from the course materials and some research]...." But that's just me. Louis