My essay on Meat Loaf... - Page 3

**RadioMaster** · 11 Oct 2007, 17:23

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Originally Posted by mszee

As I suggested before, and I might be wrong...

There might be a few reasons this passed:

1. Current movement is not to check grammar on essays but content only. Far cry from the time when they gave me B on written entrance exam into the university for one comma.

2. Teacher didn't know much about subject and cared even less.

Moral of this story for students is...pick the most obscure subject you can and run with it. Then a little imagination goes a long way...

thats quite a problem youre mentioning: In fact, you can write an A+ essay with the worst grammatical mistakes all over the place.

when we wrote our major senior year essays we could also choose what we would want to write about, and no matter how obscure the subject was, the teachers informed themselves about it, to judge the essays fairly.
Btw, this is one of the reasons why a proper essay should contain explicit source information about every fact, that way mistakes like "the tour started in march" or "jim produced the album" couldnt have happened.

But I guess this was rather a minor essay, so the teacher probably didnt really care about things like that.

meatloaf-unofficial · 11 Oct 2007, 17:25

well no, he isn't a meaty fan and gets annoyed when he see's Meat in the top40 becuase its always bat Out Of hell.... I kept my gob shut then or else I would of started saying things like - " Jim wrote the song and he's very good, the best songwriter" etc...
and might say something I might regret, though I prob wouldn't, but best to keep quite

**The Flying Mouse** · 11 Oct 2007, 18:25

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Originally Posted by meatloaf-unofficial

your 100% correct on this. I see what you mean.... March is irrelevant int he way you put it

Fred?

mszee · 11 Oct 2007, 19:13

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Originally Posted by RadioMaster

thats quite a problem youre mentioning: In fact, you can write an A+ essay with the worst grammatical mistakes all over the place.

when we wrote our major senior year essays we could also choose what we would want to write about, and no matter how obscure the subject was, the teachers informed themselves about it, to judge the essays fairly.
Btw, this is one of the reasons why a proper essay should contain explicit source information about every fact, that way mistakes like "the tour started in march" or "jim produced the album" couldnt have happened.

But I guess this was rather a minor essay, so the teacher probably didnt really care about things like that.

Despite of the seeming uniformity of school systems (not really)...the teacher as a person still remains a teacher as an individual...

I've known students putting in bogus bibliographical sources and getting away with it...in other words...getting away with murder...

Pudding · 12 Oct 2007, 00:58

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Originally Posted by Lucy!

That's one way of looking at it...personally I like to know that when I pass something I've passed it well so that next time I know that if I work to the same standard I can't fail

I agree. JUST passing and being happy with it, to me, is a failures attitude. I'm not calling Ross a failure, but I think he needs to set his standards a bit higher, like his singing.

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Originally Posted by mszee

2. Teacher didn't know much about subject and cared even less.

I can imagine what the teacher must have been thinking when he read it "WTF is this about?, I can't be arsed reading it so I'll give it a pass"

Pud

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meatloaf-unofficial Mega Loafer Join Date: 06.02.2006 Location: Touring the Country Posts: 2,558	well no, he isn't a meaty fan and gets annoyed when he see's Meat in the top40 becuase its always bat Out Of hell.... I kept my gob shut then or else I would of started saying things like - " Jim wrote the song and he's very good, the best songwriter" etc... and might say something I might regret, though I prob wouldn't, but best to keep quite