I love reading essays. :lol:

Every year, without fail, I end up giving my students a physics-based essay to do (other than for those that have to do one as part of their course). And every year, without fail, I'm "treated" to such gems as the above example. I never learn....
 
Neeyik said:
Every year, without fail, I end up giving my students a physics-based essay to do (other than for those that have to do one as part of their course). And every year, without fail, I'm "treated" to such gems as the above example. I never learn....
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I'll pity you. Seriously, either that kid that in 3 min or he has a seriously learning disorder...
 
I think the poor kids mother must have been a beaver, because he sure likes “knocking down treesâ€￾.
 
Something seems wrong about these. Firstly, some of the vocabulary used by the writer seems to be quite high level, particularly his choice of "correlate" instead of the many simpler words which mean the roughly the same thing, not to mention "satiating." That's very good compared to most high school students (ages 14-19) I've seen. Knowledge that the adjective form of "Peru" is "Peruvian" and not "Peruian" or "Peruish" is not exactly common knowledge either, in fact I bet 85 percent of HS student would get that wrong. Also some of his syntactical structure seems to be fairly advanced compared to what an "average" high school writer would produce. But the content on the other hand appears to be that of a retarded child - if he were honestly this bad off he would of been placed in special education long ago.

It's as if this essay tries too hard to be funny. Either this is fake or this is a case of someone who had potential but simply chose not to use it and now considers school a joke to be played for his amusement.
 
akira888 said:
Something seems wrong about these. Firstly, some of the vocabulary used by the writer seems to be quite high level, particularly his choice of "correlate" instead of the many simpler words which mean the roughly the same thing, not to mention "satiating." That's very good compared to most high school students (ages 14-19) I've seen. Also some of his syntactical structure seems to be fairly advanced compared to what an "average" high school writer would produce.

But the content on the other hand appears to be that of a retarded child - if he were honestly this bad off he would of been placed in special education long ago. It's as if this essay tries too hard to be funny. Either this is fake or this is a case of someone who had potential but simply chose not to use it and now considers school a joke.
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How exactly did u write when you were 14-19? Those were my most "elaborate" and articulate years, writing-wise, especially considering i was studying Italian, English, Latin and French literature.

It is likely it IS a joke, but it's still hilarious...
 
Londonboy:

Well, I passed a 5/5 on both Advanced Placement English tests (only one in school to do that), was a National Merit Scholar, got a 1560/1600 (760V/800M) on SAT I and was 3/469 in my graduating class. So I did okay. ;)

What I found so bizarre about the piece is that the "quality," when read closely was extremely uneven. He adjectivifies (sp?) "Peru" correctly and then a few sentences down has a string of 3-4 consecutive run-ons. Wierd...
 
akira888 said:
Londonboy:

Well, I passed a 5/5 on both Advanced Placement English tests (only one in school to do that), was a National Merit Scholar, got a 1560/1600 (760V/800M) on SAT I and was 3/469 in my graduating class. So I did okay. ;)

What I found so bizarre about the piece is that the "quality," when read closely was extremely uneven. He adjectivifies (sp?) "Peru" correctly and then a few sentences down has a string of 3-4 consecutive run-ons. Wierd...
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Errrr that's what's so funny about it... Not to brag, but it's like me in high school, genius boy who wouldn't open a book to save his life. Just surviving by pure grey-matter capabilities. Still do in University... ;)
 
akira888 said:
Something seems wrong about these. Firstly, some of the vocabulary used by the writer seems to be quite high level, particularly his choice of "correlate" instead of the many simpler words which mean the roughly the same thing, not to mention "satiating." That's very good compared to most high school students (ages 14-19) I've seen. Knowledge that the adjective form of "Peru" is "Peruvian" and not "Peruian" or "Peruish" is not exactly common knowledge either, in fact I bet 85 percent of HS student would get that wrong. Also some of his syntactical structure seems to be fairly advanced compared to what an "average" high school writer would produce. But the content on the other hand appears to be that of a retarded child - if he were honestly this bad off he would of been placed in special education long ago.

It's as if this essay tries too hard to be funny. Either this is fake or this is a case of someone who had potential but simply chose not to use it and now considers school a joke to be played for his amusement.
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I basically agree. Some of the vocabulary is not average.
 
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