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Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I’ve read the paper and it is indeed garbage. However, I’ve also read the rubric, and per the rubric it should not have been a zero. The student write mostly coherently and had somewhat of an argument, and was clearly responding to a prompt about a personal response to the article. I think the grader is overstepping here. But, we don’t know any further context on if this has been something ongoing and student has been warned before, or something else.

What does strike me as very odd is that there are ZERO citations in the paper.

This was being discussed elsewhere but it seems to warrant a low grade (or very low grade) and a conversation instead of a zero.

Would that have avoided the entire controversy? Who knows. The culture wars are everywhere any more and neoliberalization of education turns it into a commodity of certification instead of places of learning.

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theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Would that have avoided the entire controversy? Who knows.

No, I know. If it didn’t happen here, she would’ve kept trying. She’s an instigator… Her essay wasn’t just fundamentalist Christian, it was full of straight up bigotry. Go read it if you don’t believe me… This was written to be offensive

University of Oklahoma student Samantha Fulnecky is going viral again after her mother’s identity was revealed. Her mother, Kristi Fulnecky, was a politician in Springfield, and she was forced to step down due to multiple lawsuits.

In 2017, two tax liens were filed against Kristi, but she claimed they were errors by the IRS. During the pandemic, she sued the Springfield and the city of Branson for pushing the mask mandate.

Samantha Fulnecky’s mother also sued the Springfield Public Schools over its reopening plan, demanding five days of in-person attendance for students. She has also made headlines for her online behavior, from threatening a police chief to blocking and sending legal letters to private citizens.

She comes from a long line of Karens, of course the first thing she does as an adult is stir up shit and play the victim

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black0ut@pawb.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The paper was very poorly written. It has no structure, no argument, it’s short, and the author just writes the same 5 sentences over and over while changing a few words. That writing level does not correspond to a university student, and I would have gotten a 0 for it in 6th grade, regardless of the citations.

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- Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What’s sad is that you’re not wrong, but the quality of university writing has degraded so much that just writing something mostly coherent is fairly good. It’s in some ways a breath of fresh air from the monotonous tone of LLMs that we get for every assignment.
  
  Also, I think it’s just a short article reflection and not a paper. The rubric made it seem like it was a short assignment.
  
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  - kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Being short isn’t a problem in and of itself, given the assignment, it just makes it more embarrassing how frequently it repeats itself. It’s one thing to have to repeat the same point to pad out a 20-page paper, but not being able to think of anything else to say for 650 words?
    
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Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
They have it to another person to grade and they also gave it a zero. Also I have a BS and this is supposed to be third year work. It’s not even close. That’s zero quality work. That’s ‘I wrote this first draft 15 minutes before it was due’ quality.

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