

The Facts of Missing Class - A New Genre of Student Excuse


Photo by Walls.io on Unsplash There’s a new format of student excuse that I’m getting these days that relies on credibility but really doesn’t do a great job of audience adaptation. It’s worth talking about because I have been seeing it so often and it is an outcome of a facts-only reasoning epistemology, where the only reasons one can give are factual, without any sort of adaptation for the situation.