I try to structure my class so that if people just do the work and make an effort, they are going to pass the class. I also tend to be flexible about people turning in work.
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Someone just cited siriā¦ Iām not even kidding here. Dude literally asked siri what āoppressionā means and then used it as the opening of his essay.
Spoilered animated gif!
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Ye gods. My sympathies.
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How was this discovered? I donāt see the professor asking Siri what oppression means, just to make sure. Or is this a thing that active professors know about?
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Can anyone clarify?
Iāve been asked not to discuss sensory assault on this thread, and Iām really not sure whatās going on, or whether Iām supposed to create another thread for everything that grinds my gears, or for just some of the things.
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Thatās weird. Any reason given?
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Dude wrote āAccording to Siri, Oppression meansā¦ā as the first line in his essay. It was a solid essay other wiseā¦
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I put the animated gif behind a spoiler blur. My apologies.
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One possibility.
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You know, depending on where that student went to high school, and how long ago, it might have been considered a perfectly fine entry point for a research paper, as long as the writing became more serious as it went on. Kind of like starting with āthe OED defines X asā¦ā or āMy Uncle Fred always said that oppression isnāt a big deal to the oppressorsā. Do you see what I mean? Just a folksy way to start, 21st century version.
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Basically the request was to start another post for those specific gripes;
I never expected nor meant for one person to dominate the entire thread.
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I see. Well, I guess at least it was referenced, in a way.
Except that the OED is a recognised authoritative source, whereas Uncle Fred is not (unless heās got a published thesis youāre about to cite). I would expect by the end of high school students know the difference between academically acceptable sources and those sources which are not. I know a lot of high school teachers who seem to think anything from the intertubes is okay, but I also know there are loads of prefab lesson plans out there to help you easily teach the difference.
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It did, which is why I didnāt fail him. I had students who really phoned it inā¦ like one guy who answered two essay questions with a couple of sentencesā¦
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But I think it also depends on the topic at hand. If Uncle Fred was at Selma or worked for a major leader of some variety or the like, then Uncle Fred would be an acceptable source to use (depending on the topic, of course).
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Sure, although really there would need to be a way to verify Uncle Fred really was that expert.
Iām cynical; I went to uni with guys who made up books and quotes from them, only to be shocked, shocked I tell you, when the prof turned out to actually be well read in the subject.
One guy cited a real book and the real author, but made up his quote. Turns out our prof had Easter dinner with the author every year.
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Small world.
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History of English? It probably kind of is. And she did her undergrad during WWII ā she probably taught half the History of English profs in Canada.
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Some more literally than others.
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My interpretation of this thread, informed by the first post, was this was for minor grievances, ā1st world problems.ā Things you know arenāt really worth complaining about but doing so helps. Doing so here avoids the guilt associated with complaining about the tedious a-hole in front of you at the check-out line while others deal with situations with real life implications over in Fuck Today.
My favorite pen has been discontinued / My aunt has cancer.
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