Limerick discusses the problem of communication in academic discourse between readers and writers. She gives examples of readings that professors assign their students filled with long, dry, and overly complicated sentences. I have been in several classes where I feel that the professors’ choice of textbook was incomprehensible. As a student, I dread doing reading for such classes. Professors are not teaching well when they choose a textbook contains very lengthy chapters that have one sentence after the other which require three times to read because the wording is so confusing; instead, they are wasting a students time and only creating frustration for the material.
danni boyd
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I can agree with that. Some textbooks are difficult to read and makes we as students feel inferior or incapable of understanding what comes easy to them. They should not assume that we know what they know. We should make an effort to learn though. It just takes work from both sides.
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