Professor Peter has been teaching English to first year college students for about 25 years. He started out his career full of idealism-he was going to really inspire his students and teach them how to express their most creative ideas in writing. About twenty years ago, however, Peters decided that there was
No way that his students would ever learn to write well. He still "teaches,"
But now he mostly checks for spelling and punctuation; he cares little about the overall quality of students' writing and nothing about the quality of their ideas. Merton would say that Professor Peters has adapted to his frustration by becoming

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Professor Peters has become a ritualist, as he continues to perform his teaching duties but has abandoned the original goals of inspiring and improving students' writing, focusing instead on routine tasks like checking spelling and punctuation.

Professor Peter Has Been Teaching English to First Year College