Useful, comprehensive piece from today’s Chronicle of Higher Education (paywalled: so proxy via the Library) on creating a syllabus. Since we’ve got a few days left (cough, cough), I thought I’d share.

There’s a wealth of wisdom there, from the very practical and granular on up, but for me the take-home message is that we too often frame our syllabi in terms of don’ts, whereas the more humane and effective approach is to communicate, clearly and specifically, what kinds of behavior, learning, submitted work, etc. we do want to see from them.

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