reading a really irritating research paper, especially when it's almost 20 pages long. How could a student put so much energy into so much craptasticness?
cut-n-paste? and/or, lack of even peer-level editorial suggestions, such as "dude, this is way too long, and you're repeating yourself, and wtf with these cites?"
At this point in the semester, I'd be happy to see invested energy. I'm a little tired of doing a 15-week tap dance.
ReplyDeleteWhat's irritating about the paper?
cut-n-paste? and/or, lack of even peer-level editorial suggestions, such as "dude, this is way too long, and you're repeating yourself, and wtf with these cites?"
ReplyDeleteHeh heh. You said craptasticness. Love.
ReplyDeleteNot fun. I know.
This is why page limits are your friend. Seriously, my second-year students are writing five two-page papers rather than one ten-page paper.
ReplyDeleteReading two pages of a misfire is a lot easier to handle than ten pages, let me say. Reading twenty pages? Do not want!
It was irritating, but not a bad paper. It's hard to separate those two sometimes, alas.
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