Consider your audience
Hold it just a second there, kid! Who will be reading--and grading--your paper? The instructor for the course. And the gender of the instructor for the course is...?
Actual quotation from student paper: "The study is the man's room of the house."
Right.
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I used to lament that my father didn't have a study, and so would do all his grading and such right in the family room.
Reading turn-of-the-century descriptions of the imperious, absent father made me want to swap my own neuroses for those richer ones.
Well, we can't all have Leslie Stephen for a father. The rest of us just have to make do!
Perhaps the oddest thing about this student's comment was the novel she was writing about: Ian McEwan's 'Saturday.' Set in 2003...it *almost* would have made sense if she had been writing about a Victorian novel.
wait a minute? this was written by a FEMALE?
:::falls on the floor, dies:::
actually, i am not surprised. dead. but not surprised.
Very little would surprise me at this point. You know my suspected plagiarist from two posts ago? When I told her she would be hearing from the honor council about her draft because I suspected academic dishonesty SHE DID NOT SO MUCH AS BLINK. I expected at least an eye-widening or "What???" but instead saw complete imperviousness. These kids are shameless...and SEXIST.
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