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Article #12Re: literary query
From: John William Nelson
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 00:00
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L MASON writes: > mike furlough wrote > > Justin John Downs wrote: > > > not provide any. this all backs up my ultimate point: English > > > majors suck because if i turned in an expanded version of these > > > three or four paragraphs as a term paper, i would probably at > > > least get a b+. > > > > Not from me you wouldn't. > > I agree with you and I've been and English teacher as well as an > English major, in a former decade. Justin, I was an English major who made A's with exactly the kind of term papers you're talking about. Then I switched majors and suddenly found that I had to back up what I said with evidence. Maybe that's not true with all English depts. (since my Eng study was elsewhere) but it certainly typifies my experience. Point being, two votes against you, my vote for you.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 14e93b,734706dd05077d85 X-Google-Attributes: gid14e93b,public X-Google-Thread: 1380dc,734706dd05077d85 X-Google-Attributes: gid1380dc,public X-Google-Thread: fb716,734706dd05077d85 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb716,public X-Google-Thread: fb785,734706dd05077d85 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb785,public From: jwn3u@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (John William Nelson) Subject: Re: literary query Date: 1996/06/13 Message-ID: <DsyCHI.9tu@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> X-Deja-AN: 160017014 sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU x-nntp-posting-host: faraday.clas.virginia.edu references: <31B841F5.1462@earthlink.net> organization: uva newsgroups: uva.chat,chv.general,va.general,uva.educ.multcult