Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 20 hours agophilosophical reasoning
Dogmatic, ideological junk isn’t philosophical. It is opinion & reaction.
means that the paper contributed nothing to the topic at hand
empirical evidence
Again, where does the assignment say to do that?
As written, it merely demands a clear “reaction” showing they read the linked article & thought about it. Where’s the scientific rigor in that?
If the professor had wanted scientific rigor, then it wouldn’t have been hard to plainly write that like a grownass professional would be expected to do. It seems you’re faulting students for following soft instructions exactly as written.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
The student’s essay does neither of these things. The essay shows the student read the title of the article, not the article itself. I realize those as are the type of reactions we’re used to seeing on Lemmy, but a reaction showing they read the article would mention points directly from the article instead of just the general theme of “Trans people existing”.
Regurgitating dogmatic talking points does not demonstrate that the student “thought about it”. It reads like the student read the title, maybe the first couple of lines, then shut off their brain and said “trans bad because others tell me trans bad”.
Again, I realize it’s very common to see replies from people that did not read a or think about an article so this seems normal, but a collage level course is going to have higher standards than social media.