I Am Not Good At My Job
Choice phrases from student essays:
"As Thomas Aquinas and other 17th century thinkers argued..."
[in a discussion of the pre-Revolution French aristocracy] "Because of the atmosphere of sexual repressiveness..."
[on the first novel written in French] "The author skillfully subverts the novelistic conventions..."
"I would like to argue that T.S. Eliot is a Modernist poet." [does that really need to be argued?]
"History is the inescapable fact of the historical novel."
Sigh...........
"As Thomas Aquinas and other 17th century thinkers argued..."
[in a discussion of the pre-Revolution French aristocracy] "Because of the atmosphere of sexual repressiveness..."
[on the first novel written in French] "The author skillfully subverts the novelistic conventions..."
"I would like to argue that T.S. Eliot is a Modernist poet." [does that really need to be argued?]
"History is the inescapable fact of the historical novel."
Sigh...........
posted by Feemus at
8:05 AM
2 Comments:
Damn those inescapable facts anyway! You just can't get around them...hence their inescapability. (what's my word count now?)
I'm thinking maybe they should dump the "thesis" idea and just write a list instead.
Would that work for you, Feemus?
By
Anonymous, at 7:55 AM
Hee hee.
Be easier to grade, at any rate.
By
Feemus, at 9:47 AM
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