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"The very existence of poetry should make us laugh. What is it all about? What is it for?"
--Kenneth Koch
“El subtítulo ‘Modelo para armar’ podría llevar a creer que las
diferentes partes del relato, separadas por blancos, se proponen como piezas permutables.”
27/09/2006
Note to students. If you write beautifully and precisely for me I will love it. You will have 75% of the battle won.
Probably not. If the writing is beautiful and precise it is likely that there will also be a few good ideas and observations too. Even if the content were at a C level, highly unlikely if the student is such a good writer, the paper might eke out a B+.
... and hopefully on the same topic, or at least within the same discipline, that you are teaching. Unless, of course, that discipline is composition itself. Which clearly extends to the comments section of my blog.
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That would be a "C".
Probably not. If the writing is beautiful and precise it is likely that there will also be a few good ideas and observations too. Even if the content were at a C level, highly unlikely if the student is such a good writer, the paper might eke out a B+.
"Likely"? How could the writing be precise *without* having "a few good ideas and observations"?
Please excuse my understatement. "Writing that is beautiful and precise will also inevitably contain some insights worthy of note."
... and hopefully on the same topic, or at least within the same discipline, that you are teaching. Unless, of course, that discipline is composition itself. Which clearly extends to the comments section of my blog.
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