I often find students discouraged by their grades, particularly in their first few courses at Tyndale. This disappointment can become a source of resentment and conflict with professors. It can also sap our motivation and make material that we once found fascinating suddenly taste like sawdust. But we can avoid much of this disappointment and its…
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One of the most important tasks in reading a story is deciding where to focus. As a reader, my focus is often scattered. Things catch my attention for all kinds of reasons, some personal and some because of my own place in culture and history. If we’re interested, though, in how the text was intended to affect us, we need…
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Ian W. Scott 