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3FFA
United States3931 Posts
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Ilikestarcraft
Korea (South)17727 Posts
Not really directed at you op but I really think a lot of rants on teachers/professors are unjustified. People expect themselves to breeze through classes with no effort and when they don't put in the effort blame the professor. | ||
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BottleAbuser
Korea (South)1888 Posts
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
you learn quick that there exist profs that don't care about reading good papers but only care about reading how right they are i remember a paper i had to write.. on ANY topic. a persuasive paper that was meant to convince the reader of something. no other restrictions. i wrote on why marijuana should be legalized. boy was that a mistake. the funny part is i was naive and spent quite some time arguing why my arguments were solid and the paper was well-written but it was like talking to a wall. haven't failed a paper since then  edit @bdares above, that's another great way to fail an assignment. if you're unsure, you ask, you don't invent shit and expect your prof to agree with what you've invented. i've learned that one too. | ||
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BottleAbuser
Korea (South)1888 Posts
Possibly you failed the persuasive paper because you failed to persuade him on the topic you wrote about  | ||
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
and yes, without going into details, i definitely didn't persuade my prof that marijuana should be legalized. the paper itself was well-written though. certainly not worth a failing grade, especially considering i've written much shitter papers later on that ended up getting 90% just because i was writing what i knew the prof would like reading. fun times | ||
Liquid`Drone
Norway28669 Posts
do your assignments as you are assigned to do them. grading / evaluating is sometimes a real bitch, one of the problems is that when you are grading multiple assignments you normally need to grade them from some common criteria, otherwise it becomes impossible to accurately distinguish between assignments. if two, or ten, students write about the same topic, it is not that hard to get a feeling of whom deserves a better grade of the students depending on the quality of the papers - but if one student decides to take an entirely different perspective from every other student, that student suddenly requires that the teacher makes a new list of criterias from which he calculates that student's evaluation/grade, and he loses the ability to compare it to other papers. and in that event, it is very common for teachers to sort of, take the middle ground. "this is a good paper - but you didn't answer the intended question, thus you lose out on some of the grade you could potentially have gotten, however I also want to reward you for your work thus you still get a decent grade" (whereas if you pull the same stunt on a university exam, you might fail it entirely. ) normally, at least in norway, if a student consistently works well and has good grades through the year, and during one test or text he decides to take a different perspective from what was intented, he or she (incidentially though, this is normally done by a "he") will get a worse grade on that text or test, but that text or test will also to some degree be disregarded from the final grading process. (depending on how important it was of course - meaning that it's even more important that you don't pull any stunt like this during your midterms. ) | ||
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T0fuuu
Australia2275 Posts
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Squeegy
Finland1166 Posts
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AppleTart
United States1261 Posts
On November 13 2010 23:19 3FFA wrote: Hakker would you mind telling us about word-for-word what ur assignment was? It isn't clear to me yet. I would like this too... it's hard for me to relate to you and your rage if the actual assignment he gave was exactly what he told you after you got your paper back... then you just didn't follow directions. However if his assignment mentioned nothing about that then he is just a dick, UNLESS your paper sucked regardless... upload your paper and give an exactly wording of the original assignment... | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32056 Posts
On November 13 2010 16:56 McDonalds wrote: You might be right if there was an argument A in the description of the assignment, but as far as I remember there was not. The images I used met the criteria and as the assignment involved a presentation I made clear my reasons for believing that they met the criteria. how the hell are you still arguing something that's just wrong right off the bat? not only in being 'hypersexualized' just one very small part of gender norms, what the hell does that mean, youre moving the opposite way in that your teacher sees??? | ||
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
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OpticalShot
Canada6330 Posts
Honestly, how many teachers can you identify as "loves teaching, cares for students, and knows what he/she is talking about most of the time?" Probably much less than half the staff. At least here in Canada, teaching is a damn secure job with lots of benefits and the security/income/benefit stack up with years (i.e. seniority) NOT job performance. Naturally, those failures (teachers) sit their asses on their comfortable job and churn out more failure students. So yeah. Don't be so discouraged, I'd advise you to keep your opinions alive but save them for the times when you're not graded for it. High school - just flow with the system and get high marks. | ||
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writer22816
United States5775 Posts
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Count9
China10928 Posts
On November 14 2010 09:47 writer22816 wrote: Wow that teacher seems really biased. But to be honest, if he's THAT fucked up (minimum 5 book sources, 1 internet source max? lmao) then it would have been most prudent to just play his game 5 book refs and 1 int max sounds very normal actually from what I remember, they don't want kids being lazy and just googling and getting the same 6 internet sources from everyone. | ||
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jlim
Spain943 Posts
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Thrill
2599 Posts
It is - if you don't care for perfect grades, in that case you're fighting a loosing battle. High schools entire system is based on you being able to find what the teacher wants and providing him/her with that. It's a valuable lesson for which you'll have use all your life. It's not about sucking up - unless you're weak - in that case sucking up works too, what it's really about is utilizing your social analytical skills well enough to understand what will be desired/required. In this case it's extremely easy to see what the teacher wants i mean come on - you've already written it down in your post! You should have just written some eloquent regurgitated garbage portraying the internet as a threat to our privacy and a mind numbing drug for the proletariat spelling the death of diversity in backgrounds among future intellectuals and the rise of a homogenized elite of thinkers as inbred in thought as the Romanovs in blood. | ||
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