Re: OT - College Students

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 20:52:34 -0600, "GregoryD" <heybrah@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>"elsie" <lcubbison@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> <rant>
>> To all college students on this group,
>>
>> Your professors are not idiots. Not only are they not idiots, they
>> actually read the crap you turn in. Not only do they read your crap, they
>> recognize crap when they see it. In particular, they are smart enough to
>> recognize crap they've already read. And when they find that they have two
>> identical piles of crap sitting right in front of them, they are pissed!
>> Lesson for you students: if you're going to give your professors crap, at
>> least make sure it's your own crap and not someone else's.
>>
>> </rant>
>
>Speak for yerself, but um... I've never so much as proofread any of the
>writing assignments that I turned in during my time at my university, and I
>graduated with a 4.0 average in English and liberal arts. I found it
>hilarious that the lower level English professors weighed grammar and
>punctuation more heavily than the content of the reports. How hard is it to
>write gramatically correct English if you write short, concise sentences
>that avoid all commas and semicolons?

Congratulations! You appear to have mastered the concept of the
"economy of words". It takes most would-be writers a lifetime to come
to this conclusion.


>During my senior year, the university implemented a Computer Science
>graduation exam for seniors. It was essentially the GRE for CS majors plus
>some random CLEP crap thrown in. Since it was the first year, the
>professors and TAs took the exam as well. I outscored all of them.

Were those tests also scored on grammar?

I'm convinced that programmers in particular ought to be able to make
use of appropriate grammar. I'm always shocked when my classmates say
"Why do I have to write papers? I'm a CS student." Considering how
CRUCIAL parsing and grammar rules are to programming practice, I'd
take askance of any CS student who couldn't demonstrate mastery of
grammar.

>
>My professors may not have been idiots, but they proved that you don't have
>to be exceptionally bright to graduate with a PhD from a top university.
>
>GregoryD
>
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Kyzoku ni naritai...
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