Teachers of comp: post best student sentences

[The Emperor's Son]

such a young thirst for knowledge

[addison]

The ad depends on the status of Batman’s legend—children will recognize him and they will want to drink milk, and men will envy his muscular body, which helps convey the physical benefits of drinking milk; additionally, the colors of the ad show that Batman might be on top of a building, where he is giving a look of intimidation to show that he is watching over everything.

[addison]

I'm just going to have to post the conclusion now, because it's the acme of recapitulation

When it comes to fighting crime, Batman seems like he has it all. Drinking milk not only helps him do this, but it also keeps him healthy. Men seeing this ad will buy milk and know that they are getting the proper nutrients to get buff and strong. For children they have that legend to look up to and will be encouraged to drink milk. Even though the dark colors of the ad is intimidating, it also shows a bright side to it where you know he is watching over Gotham city. The ad may not be seen as serious to all, but to most it is to show that even the toughest guys need something simple like milk to make it through the day.

i bolded the lost reference to lost chijd

[Johan POOPLER]

how do you grade these things and what kinds of notes do you give?

when you've abandoned any hope that most students will ever be able to write/think clearly, how do you decide what constitutes a passing grade vs. a failing grade?

do you ever write leave patronizing "positive" remarks ("good point!", "excellent word choice", etc) on a paper like elementary school teachers do?

[addison]

how do you grade these things and what kinds of notes do you give?

when you've abandoned any hope that most students will ever be able to write/think clearly, how do you decide what constitutes a passing grade vs. a failing grade?

do you ever write leave patronizing "positive" remarks ("good point!", "excellent word choice", etc) on a paper like elementary school teachers do?

Your premise is that the point of the ad is to make people want to be like Batman. Do you think that people, even children (unless they are very young), look at Batman and literally want to be him? Do you honestly think criminals would be deterred by a milk ad?

[Johan POOPLER]

are you turning these questions around on me or is that a example of your feedback? i just got high and im kinda worried that you are trying to make me feel In Trouble.

[sadville]

can't wait to grade papers next week!

[addison]

inspired by poopler--a comment I made and its effects on an essay

draft 1 on a benetton ad:
I feel like the level of attractiveness is very high, all the young people are skinny, and in shape, and yet they look natural and prove that they also have beauty on the inside.

I wrote--don't ask me why: Would the ad be different if the people weren’t attractive and skinny?

final draft:
I feel that the level of attractiveness is very high. All the young people are skinny, and in shape, and yet they look natural which proves that they also have beauty on the inside. If this ad portrayed overweight and less attractive people I think that viewers would take this ad as a joke, and not be able to notice the message behind the picture.

I made some comment about how this was inappropriate

revised final draft:
All the young people are skinny, and in shape, and yet they look natural which proves that they also have beauty on the inside. This ad proves this by not having the people dressed in elegant and expensive clothing, they are not surrounded with material goods, and they are not hiding themselves behind make-up. If this ad were to portray less attractive people I think that viewers would take this ad as a joke, and not be able to notice the message behind the picture.

[addison]

are you turning these questions around on me or is that a example of your feedback? i just got high and im kinda worried that you are trying to make me feel In Trouble.

it was from my feedback

[grammatron]

I used to have a coupl'a real humdingers saved. Lemme dig around and see if I can find them.

[grammatron]

These are both from the same girl in a 10th grade english class. When talking to her, you'd have no idea she was literally brainless:

9-11, was a horrible tradgedy, tons of lives were lost, did this experience lifted the American sprit? Or down it? These questions are asked. Out of all the lives lost, were there any to be gained? An awakening of reconization, that the Americans are not the only breed in this human race. To not take what we fortunate have for granite. In conclusion to 9-11 better protection against future terrorism has been put into action and the American ignorance was lifted...for a short period of time.

Violent protest, assasination, hate crimes, discrimanation, can all is debated weather or not they serving a good and a bad purpose. Everything bad has a good, as for everything good has badly; it's the way you look at it all.

[Dr. Norm Thagard]

Here are some from memory:

In Chinua Achebe's novel, Thongs Fall Apart...

Macbeth was an ass king.

This one was written in pen where the conclusion to an essay should have been:
I'm sorry I did not finish the conclusion to this essay. i found out Justin Bieber was coming to town and hyperventilated (he's really attracive).

[grammatron]

haha

[Johan POOPLER]

These are both from the same girl in a 10th grade english class. When talking to her, you'd have no idea she was literally brainless:

9-11, was a horrible tradgedy, tons of lives were lost, did this experience lifted the American sprit? Or down it? These questions are asked. Out of all the lives lost, were there any to be gained? An awakening of reconization, that the Americans are not the only breed in this human race. To not take what we fortunate have for granite. In conclusion to 9-11 better protection against future terrorism has been put into action and the American ignorance was lifted...for a short period of time.

Violent protest, assasination, hate crimes, discrimanation, can all is debated weather or not they serving a good and a bad purpose. Everything bad has a good, as for everything good has badly; it's the way you look at it all.

im takin notes on these. got any more?

[feral]

Getting my first batch of papers to grade for the semester today. Horror awaits.

[chimp_]

"everything bad has a good, as for everything good has badly; it's the way you look at it all" is really bumming me out

how can people in a first world nation be so dumb

[grammatron]

I remember her arguing w/ me after I gave her that essay back with an F on it and she said something like "I feel like you're just not understanding what I'm trying to say, and that's why you gave me a bad grade." And I was all, "Yes. That's exactly it." She also refused to believe that "reconization" wasn't a word.

[grammatron]

She also fancied herself a poet.

[Bartatua]

This is probably the best opening to a paper I've seen:

<Aristotle quote>. That's a quote by Aristotle. If you don't know who he is that's okay. He was an ancient Greek who did a lot of things for the better.

[feral]

Well, that's true, Bartatua. Don't try to deny it.

[important dentist]

to grammatron's student i want to say, "please read this out loud and tell me if it makes any sense."

but then it will turn into something like bartatua's student's paper and just seriously how can writing be this bad aosuihgkaljsng

[patrick cokane?]

Macbeth was an ass king.

[addison]

Use this thread to board from comp class
teacher evaluations & peer review what what

[addison]

This is probably the best opening to a paper I've seen:

<Aristotle quote>. That's a quote by Aristotle. If you don't know who he is that's okay. He was an ancient Greek who did a lot of things for the better.

“You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.”

[addison]

that was the aristotle quote right

[cooly]

that grammatron post is blowing my mind right now

my friend taught for a class called "minds and machines" and he got a paper the first sentence of which was:
descartes thought that there were two things in this world -- minds and machines

always makes me laugh

[Juggly D, The Posting Maniac]

im glad addison's back

[Duplo]

gonna hold out on this for now
but i've already had a few stone cold howlers this semester

always amazes me how many students seem to go out of their way to construct a sentence with the most awkward passive voicing they can think up

[Duplo]

"upon reading this sentence, a thought is created"

[gallits]

gonna hold out on this for now
but i've already had a few stone cold howlers this semester

always amazes me how many students seem to go out of their way to construct a sentence with the most awkward passive voicing they can think up

Formulating one's sentences such that they appear, ostensibly, awkward is a method by which such sentences are able to be lengthened in order, as far as I am permitted to say, to comprehensively fill a word count of considerable size.