Jim Meenan, Thomas Geyer and Courtney Crowder
If students wanted to skate through Freshman Rhetoric a requirement at Augustana College they better hope they weren’t in Roald Tweet’s class.
The longtime professor was known for giving out “legendary” assignments, former Rock Island Mayor Mark Schwiebert told the Quad-City Times.
An essay in which only three multi-syllabic words were used. A paper in which the letter “E” only appeared a select number of times. A poem about a single word.
They were the sort of exercises that made one consider the craft of writing, the kind that inspired a lifelong love of language.
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