• @[email protected]
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    453 months ago

    I always thought writing essays was the stupidest part of any class because it’s entirely up to the teacher’s viewpoint on whether the essay was good or not. I finally had a prof in college that REQUIRED us to have a meeting with him with our first draft in hand so that he could critique them before actually turning them in for grading, and suddenly it became so much easier to get good grades on essays.

  • @Maggoty
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    233 months ago

    Looks at Rubric…

    2 quotes per paragraph.

    Quality pre-quote sentences

    At least 3 paragraphs

    No more than half a page

    Due date was yesterday

    Collegiate level critical thinking

    Perfect grammar according to this specific teacher’s ideas

    Must use MLA citation method from 1965. Automatic fail if you use the modern version.

    I’m just going to be over here looking at the gas station jobs.

    • @Lizardking27
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      -13 months ago

      If you’re complaining about half a page then yeah, maybe stick to the local gas’n’gulp.

      • @Maggoty
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        43 months ago

        I’ll just type that up in 5 point font then yeah?

  • @[email protected]
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    203 months ago

    damn I wish I still taught middle school ELA just so that I could pop out this bad boy and make all my students cringe smh

  • @Skullgrid
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    183 months ago

    I’m fucked because I have no idea what a rubrick is

    • @badcommandorfilename
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      503 months ago

      It’s a 3x3x3 cube that teachers give to students to stop them fidgeting in class

      • Zagorath
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        No, that’s a Rubik’s. A rubric is a river that traditionally marked the northern border of Italy.

          • 🔍🦘🛎
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            103 months ago

            No no that’s Kubrick. Ruberic is when you have a petty argument with someone.

        • Farid
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          33 months ago

          For those of us who need to do research to get this joke, I already did it. They mean Rubicon River (which is no longer in the north, so don’t look for it there, it’s on the opposite side of the knee).

          • Zagorath
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            23 months ago

            For more context, the Rubicon is famous less among geographers and more among historians. Famously, the governor of a province was not allowed to bring an army south of the Rubicon into Italy, so when Julius Caesar marched south with his army, that is the point at which it was impossible for Rome not to go to civil war. The phrase “crossing the Rubicon” is an English-language idiom (I don’t know if equivalents exist in other languages, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s common across countries formerly in the Roman Empire) meaning “passing a point of no return”.

    • Jeom
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      93 months ago

      its basically a set of rules the teacher uses to grade students, so just follow the rubric and you’ll get good marks

  • @HollowNaught
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    173 months ago

    Bold of you to assume they won’t mark me down based on information they never provided because it was “expected knowledge”

  • LEX
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    63 months ago

    … that’s literally the point of a rubric.

  • THCDenton
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    23 months ago

    The basic essay pattern from junior high is easy. Whenever I use it people say I’m a good writer 🙃