Re: Aforementioned paper: Evolution and Creationism.

news:TyIqg.35006$VE1.4276@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx by Deadrat:

"Sarah Waggoner" <sarah.waggoner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1152053934.383055.116060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Please forgive me if your previous posts answered the following
questions:

1. What was the wording of your assignment?

There wasn't. I'll explain in the next question.

2. What requirement did you fulfill with this assignment? (Senior
thesis? semester paper?)

Senior thesis; this paper was one of four papers submitted in
fulfillment. My college requires what they call a Plan of
Concentration- essentially a self-designed course of study with a
self-designed piece of work at the end. One component must be
submitted without any faculty oversight. The subject matter, weight,
and length of all papers/components (art students, for example, will
have a gallery show as a Plan component) is determined by the
student. I submitted a 40 page paper on the toxicology of
insecticides, a 30-plus page paper on the evolution of insecticide
resistance in crop pests, a shorter paper emerging from summer
laboratory work on the evolution of latitudinal size clines in
crickets, and this (20-ish when double spaced in Times New Roman
12pt) paper, which was my 'independent' section. 'Independents' are
usually peripherally related to the field of study, and are sometimes
(often in the sciences) in the form of tests. I knew I wanted to do
a paper from the moment I started designing my Plan, however.

3. What discipline were you working in? (Biology? History of
science?)

My degree is in BIOLOGY/Biochemistry/Evolutionary biology. I
should've pursued a dual Biology/Biochem (my college doesn't offer an
evo bio major), but I was silly.

4. At what academic level were you working when you submitted this
assignment?

A senior in college.

5. What institution accepted it? (Or, if you don't want to identity
your whereabouts, what type of school?)

A four-year liberal arts institution. If you're wildly curious, I
think only one college calls its senior thesis a Plan of
Concentration.

I'm not *that* curious, but a closer look shows that you actually name
the school in the paper.



6. What grade did you get?

An overall A, and an A on that paper specifically. After an oral
defense, it was graded by my two faculty evaluators, and an 'outside
evaluator'- an expert in the field brought in from another
institution to be an impartial third party.


I'm rather curious why you're asking . . . ?


Before I composed one of my tirades, I thought I'd ask for some
context. Apparently, your senior work includes both a review of
literature (on insecticides) and a lab report (on crickets). This
essay seems to be more of a pensee, perhaps the least of the three
efforts. Nevertheless, I'm somewhat surprised it rated an A for
senior-year work in college, let alone a nomination for POTM.

If you'd like the full tirade, I'll oblige. If the situation were
reversed, I myself would prefer to bask in the glow of graduation and
ignore freely-given opinions that are worth at least as much as they
cost.

Sarah,

I should warn you that one of the front runners for this month's Chez Watt
is, "I love this newsgroup! Where else can you be politely invited to
come die in a bog? "


--
"Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever."
Annual English Teachers' awards for best student
metaphors/analogies found in actual student papers

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