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Posted on 03-27-11 03:04:44 AM Link | Quote
In my experience, teachers usually don't like students to announce their conclusions with "In conclusion", as it's seen as padding.

What if someone wrote a paper on the history of "LOL"?

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Posted on 03-27-11 03:05:54 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Terra
In my experience, teachers usually don't like students to announce their conclusions with "In conclusion", as it's seen as padding.

I had a teacher in middle school who required that all conclusions start with "In conclusion". So I thought it was just a rule of formal writing at the time.

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Posted on 03-27-11 03:09:18 AM Link | Quote
I did have a teacher in middle school who said that the conclusion should be basically the same as the introduction

Then again, that teacher was weird. He'd read students' papers to the class but disguise the names, usually as celebrities like "Tom Cruise" or "Madonna".

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Posted on 03-27-11 06:08:01 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Terra
I did have a teacher in middle school who said that the conclusion should be basically the same as the introduction

Then again, that teacher was weird. He'd read students' papers to the class but disguise the names, usually as celebrities like "Tom Cruise" or "Madonna".

in a sense, it should be. the introduction is supposed to introduce the ideas and concepts to be addressed and the conclusion is supposed to wrap them up.
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I remember once in middle school we were doing peer editing/proofreading someone got "LOL" written on her paper as a comment. The teacher found it and we explained what it meant to her.

And she said, "If I see LOL on one of my papers, I'm going to...

COL."

No one says anything, so the teacher says,

"...Cry out loud."

And then seeing no one laughing, she goes about with the rest of her comments on our essays.

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Posted on 03-27-11 08:30:24 AM Link | Quote
I think when I was 12 I used ^_^ in a paper once and got credit because the teacher thought it was cute.

in retrospect, I probably shouldn't have just admitted that.
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Posted on 03-27-11 08:53:06 AM Link | Quote
Wait, what?

That's hilarious!

You're really lucky your teacher's cool enough to let it slide, too.

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Posted on 03-27-11 08:54:58 AM Link | Quote
I'm actually surprised she did, as she was much older and I'm more than certain it was probably the first time she'd ever even encountered it.
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One writing teacher had everyone print out their short stories, then he would read them. Even the email headers, when they printed out their email page. He'd read the whole thing, including "Check Email - Print Email - Compose Email." Then he would give comments on the quality of the header alongside the paper itself.

I actually did a paper on IRC for one of my classes. If you're in an Anthropology or properly themed English class, no one would reject 'The History of LOL' either.

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Posted on 03-27-11 06:52:56 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Terra
In my experience, teachers usually don't like students to announce their conclusions with "In conclusion", as it's seen as padding.


...Isn't that the point of most essays, though? To put a few facts in and a few supportive pieces of evidence and then pad it to hell and back?

Seriously, fuck length requirements. Some of us are just right to the point.


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Posted on 03-27-11 07:16:08 PM Link | Quote
I tend to pad out my shit unintentionally because I want all the facts to be there.

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Posted on 03-27-11 08:36:42 PM Link | Quote
My essays have always been 90% padding. Its how I bs'd my way through English for three semesters of college.
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Posted on 03-27-11 08:57:17 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Reshiram
Just you wait for someone to name their child β™₯.

Someone change my username to β™₯.

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I feel like these additions have to be taken in context. "noob" is definitely a word, because millions of people can easily understand what it means (even if they wouldn't use it). Just because a word "shouldn't be a word" doesn't mean it isn't. In a way, it's jargon, and there is plenty of jargon in dictionaries (especially ones as enormous as Oxford).
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Originally posted by FSX
Just because a word "shouldn't be a word" doesn't mean it isn't.
"LOL" is not a word. "OMG" is not a word. "β™₯" is especially not a word! (Do you see any letters in there?)

None of these should be words because they aren't words!

Just watch, next year they're going to officially add ":)", or release the first edition of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Internet Memes...

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Posted on 03-31-11 11:40:40 AM (last edited by Karis at 03-31-11 08:40 AM) Link | Quote




Originally posted by Bloodstar
...Isn't that the point of most essays, though? To put a few facts in and a few supportive pieces of evidence and then pad it to hell and back?

Seriously, fuck length requirements. Some of us are just right to the point.

^

I hate it when I have to do an essay and there is a minimum length requirement. I can get down all the information needed in something that sounds good and is really short. That, should be better then an essay which takes forever getting to the points. Less read, you get all the information, sounds like win-win to me. :/


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Posted on 03-31-11 08:03:26 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Waffle Ryebread
Originally posted by FSX
Just because a word "shouldn't be a word" doesn't mean it isn't.
"LOL" is not a word. "OMG" is not a word. "β™₯" is especially not a word! (Do you see any letters in there?)

None of these should be words because they aren't words!

Just watch, next year they're going to officially add ":)", or release the first edition of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Internet Memes...

You both raise interesting points. While I agree with BMF completely on this, its also very true that there is already a LOT of jargon in the dictionary--perhaps just related to fields we have next to no knowledge of. I'm sure people in those fields are probably looking at the dictionary too, though, and wondering how the hell slang from their field made it in there.
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The third point is, a dictionary is not equal to an official statement on the language. Since English has no central authority, people can reject what's in the dictionary at their leisure.

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