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This one from PHD Comics certainly rings true:
Not that I actually graded papers without reading them, of course. But, after having done it a while, you get a pretty good sense of what you’re going to encounter.
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Looks more to me as an exchange between a (gasp) left leaning policy wonk and a center right Southern Senator. Title of the paper?
“Deleterious effects on our state’s economy if aspects of the Stimulus package are rejected. Selected economic data, political implications, and the slow death of Reagan economics.
The final spoken line by the putative professor certainly appear to be the attack line of the Republican members of Congress…
Before closing off and going to bed, I should point out to odograph the my link to Stiglitz in the thread to your post Limbaugh, Failure, and Media Distortion was not a snark, but an attempt to pass on information on this complex problem to him and the readership. The discussion about Limbough sure tickled my fun bone!
Unfortunately, when it comes to snarks, the same cannot be said for this communication.
I had a prof who I busted doing this. I always got an A, and based on his comments and typos he overlooked I felt certain he didn’t read my essays.
I tested my theory by putting something preposterous in the middle. He never say it.
From that point on I wrote intelligent first sentences and last sentences to every paragraph and lamed out on the inner sentences.
He never noticed. All A’s for L.
I found often times that it had more to do with a professor’s like or dislike with a student or their philosophies. I had roommates once that switch their papers on a bet to prove the point. Sure enough the point was made. Granted their skills were pretty close but that was what started the bet.
Oh, those who would go in and butter up the professors and show them how hard they were trying, often got better grades as well. It is nothing but a game.
