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Yeratel:
--- Quote from: Franzeska on April 29, 2008, 06:56:21 PM ---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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More than just grades in class, people tend to judge you in Life on how well you express yourself. Say, for example, you've got a Bachelor's Degree and a Master's Degree from a prominent Ivy League university, and you've been successful in advancing your business career, and even been elected to high public office, yet if you can't express your thoughts clearly, use bad grammar, and mispronounce words like "nuclear" in public, people will sneer at you behind your back and whisper to each other that you're some kind of idiot. Trust me, it can happen. ;)
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: Yeratel on April 29, 2008, 08:57:15 PM ---yet if you can't express your thoughts clearly, use bad grammar, and mispronounce words like "nuclear" in public, people will sneer at you behind your back and whisper to each other that you're some kind of idiot. Trust me, it can happen. ;)
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LOL snarky snark... not you Wolfie, but at the implied unmentioned person.
The Univ of IA law school has an ENTIRE support staff department to read the Briefs and Memos of the students in the college. Unfortunately, they must assume that most law firms and public defenders offices have a grammar expert on retainer for correcting papers.
Wolfhowls:
I'm not going to let this class get me too down. Ever since English Comp Two I've ever made anything less then a B on a paper. This was the first time ever, so now that I have cooled my heels I'm going take this as a learning lesson and humble myself a bit.
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