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Yeratel:
Sounds like you could use a proofreader to check the grammar before you turn in your final papers. They ding a lot more for grammar and spelling in college level and graduate courses, because you are supposed to KNOW that stuff by then, and sloppy work is just unacceptable to many professors, no matter how original your thinking.
Wolfhowls:
--- Quote from: Yeratel on April 29, 2008, 06:18:22 PM ---Sounds like you could use a proofreader to check the grammar before you turn in your final papers. They ding a lot more for grammar and spelling in college level and graduate courses, because you are supposed to KNOW that stuff by then, and sloppy work is just unacceptable to many professors, no matter how original your thinking.
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Yeah ~sigh~ I know. I understood a few of them but some of them I was like HUH? Oh well, the class is almost over.
Yeratel:
--- Quote from: The Wonderful Wolfhowls on April 29, 2008, 06:27:44 PM ---Yeah ~sigh~ I know. I understood a few of them but some of them I was like HUH? Oh well, the class is almost over.
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If you're going to have to do a lot more writing in the future, for school or work, it might be worth it to take a refresher course in English composition. Papers that are spelled correctly, properly punctuated, and have the verbs agreeing with the nouns tend to get higher grades just because teachers are so grateful they don't have to spend so much time marking them up. I've also seen letters and emails from business executives that look like they flunked English comp, and probably had to have their secretaries write all their papers to get their "Executive MBA" degrees.
Wolfhowls:
--- Quote from: Yeratel on April 29, 2008, 06:44:32 PM ---If you're going to have to do a lot more writing in the future, for school or work, it might be worth it to take a refresher course in English composition. Papers that are spelled correctly, properly punctuated, and have the verbs agreeing with the nouns tend to get higher grades just because teachers are so grateful they don't have to spend so much time marking them up. I've also seen letters and emails from business executives that look like they flunked English comp, and probably had to have their secretaries write all their papers to get their "Executive MBA" degrees.
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Well I have to retake English Comp One because I got a D in it and the University I want to go to won't take D's from a Community College. So I will welcome the refresher.
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Franzeska:
--- Quote from: The Wonderful Wolfhowls on April 29, 2008, 06:27:44 PM ---Yeah ~sigh~ I know. I understood a few of them but some of them I was like HUH? Oh well, the class is almost over.
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I'm sure we'd be happy to help if you want to post an example or two of the comments that are confusing you. I agree that teachers tend to be lenient if your paper seems good to them overall and extremely harsh if they get a headache trying to get through it. No matter how good the ideas, no matter whether this is "fair" or not, a paper that is hard to read is a paper that's going to get a crappy grade.
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