ENGL 101 Chapter : Narcissism And Me

• School: University of Louisiana Lafayette
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

I bought the narcissism epidemic by jean twenge and keith campbell for the same reason i bought twenge"s solo work, generation me, a few years ago: i needed help with narcissism. On the narcissistic personality inventory, i score about as high as. American eighth graders do on international math tests. No wonder i can"t understand the students i teach. That"s what i wanted help with teaching, understanding attitudes, getting my mind around the language of it. When i started ten years ago, i found myself continually shocked by student behavior. Students emailed with requests that i personally instruct them on material covered in classes they had, for whatever reason, missed. (i never heard of anyone doing that when. Some expected make-up exams or assignments when the cause of a date conflict was a vacation leaving early or returning late for spring break. (didn"t they know that vacation plans go around the academic calendar, not through it?)