There are entire majors in theology.
Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
The Bible is never a valid source for anything. It is literally a book of fiction. It would be like using a Stephen King book as a source.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
I tried to get a Witch Doctor degree, but they discriminated against me for being Pagan. It’s Big God keeping us down.
melfie@lemy.lol 1 day ago
I remember a student in class threw a fit about not being able to cite the Bible as a source. She showed the professor a website demonstrating how to cite the Bible in APA format as “proof” that the Bible can in fact be cited.
uberfreeza@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Even if it wasn’t, it’s still a secondary source at most throughout.
3abas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
True. But the problem wasn’t that she used the bible as a source, the problem is that she didn’t answer the question at all, and used the bible as a source to describe her own beliefs. Beliefs she’s entitled to have, as the professor’s comment pointed out, but you can’t ignore the question of the assignment and use it as a platform to share your beliefs and expect to get a passing grade. If she wanted to use the assignment as a protest, she should be proud to get an F as a form of martyrdom, but as the Jesus pointed out, she opted to receive her worldly reward instead of a heavenly one (not that she would, but for argument’s sake).
Her writing style, the quality of her submission, and the fact that TPUSA shared this publicly and think it shows them in the right as they continue to attack the professor who graded this garbage submission very gentle is a symptom of the complete lack of education these people are exposed to.
zbyte64@awful.systems 1 day ago
She didn’t even use the Bible as a source - did not mention a single verse. She basically using herself as the sole source because there are 0 citations.
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Graded gently? I’m curious how it might have been graded more harshly lol
3abas@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Grade: F (0/100) Your submission does not meet the basic expectations for an academic reflection or critique. Rather than engaging the article’s claims with evidence, you substitute personal belief as an argument and treat disagreement as a rebuttal. That is not analysis; it is opinion.
You were explicitly expected to challenge the material using empirical findings, methodological critique, or testable alternative hypotheses. You did none of those. There are no credible sources used to support your counterclaims, no operational definitions, no evaluation of the study’s design, and no attempt to distinguish “I feel” from “the evidence shows.” The result reads as a refusal to participate in scholarly inquiry.
Until you can separate personal convictions from evidentiary argument, and demonstrate that separation in writing, you will continue to fail assignments of this type.