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Why is it that in college, it seems that the papers you write are more focused on how much male-cow manuer you can squeeze into the required length than the actual content?

Do you go to an agricultural college?

Why is it that in college, it seems that the papers you write are more focused on how much male-cow manuer you can squeeze into the required length than the actual content?

I had lots of that in HS, but not much in college. Maybe it is a BG thing. I havent actually had to write a ton of papers and when I do the profs usually dont specify much of a length. What is your major?

What is your major? In engineering school I didn't have much of that.

Joe

Technology education. Any education major knows the BS that has to be slung...

Why is it that in college, it seems that the papers you write are more focused on how much male-cow manuer you can squeeze into the required length than the actual content?

in elementary school you learn ABC's. In middle school you learn how to avoid being beaten up. In high school you learn how to socialize. in college you learn how to jump though hoops. in real life you learn the stuff that matters.

i will agree with timmhaan, you do learn how to jump though hoops, if your prof says jump you say how high! I'm going thought much teh same thing in a programming class I'm taking.. its all hoops and the keep getting smaller....

as for papers i know the feeling, you write till the page limit then your done... only so far in college i have never had to little to write about.

pHD=BS piled Higher and Deeper

Philosophy classes are where you have to lay it on most thickly. You should see this one paper I wrote about Sartre...

Why is it that in college, it seems that the papers you write are more focused on how much male-cow manuer you can squeeze into the required length than the actual content?

It prepares you for life in the workforce.

Hopefully you'll get out of the BS mode once you start hitting your major classes. Where I am, at the very end of my undergrad, I've been writing papers full of actual material for a couple of years. It might be a function of major, though. Education does seem a little iffy.

Philosophy classes are where you have to lay it on most thickly. You should see this one paper I wrote about Sartre...
if there ever was a class that i considered utterly useless.... *cringe*

Hopefully you'll get out of the BS mode once you start hitting your major classes. Where I am, at the very end of my undergrad, I've been writing papers full of actual material for a couple of years. It might be a function of major, though. Education does seem a little iffy.

The big example of BS being slung is in education psychology. You are asked to write five pages on comparing and contrasting two different learning theroies you used when tutoring a child. Ohh, the bull ka ka was piled very, very deep. :D

Hopefully you'll get out of the BS mode once you start hitting your major classes. Where I am, at the very end of my undergrad, I've been writing papers full of actual material for a couple of years. It might be a function of major, though. Education does seem a little iffy.

Ditto.
Once you get through core classes your papers should be more specific, research based , and the length will be more or less regulated by the topic and the amount of research. As someone who is finishing their doctoral dissertation in special education, I can attest to the overwhelming BS factor in education classes. It seems much of the education academia have a severe inferiority complex and try to make up for it with fluff and filler. BUT trust me, all good profs appreciate brevity as long, as you successfully make your point.

You are asked to write five pages on comparing and contrasting two different learning theroies you used when tutoring a child. Ohh, the bull ka ka was piled very, very deep. :D
Every paper required of me in college actaully showed me something about my style, my goals and my desires regarding the class/topic at hand and my life. When you are writing papers like the one above, you are not writing to simply report what you did, but to show what was accomplished, and gain insight on what can be done next time to benefit the student with whom you are working (****, maybe even yourself!). Yeah, the required, generic "write about xyz" papers that are turned in just to be turned in suck ass. It took me quite sometime to figure out that what you are doing can actually benefit you...
Being an English/Philo dual major put me through the wringer when it came to writing (I had over 15 pages of writing due a week, on average, my junior and senior yrs - not to include actual finals/middies/assignments) and I struggled with the same: why the **** am I writing crap? Why can't I see beyond the initial question. Take you own spin on what is being asked (hint: NEVER write on Shakespeare's sonnets being "Stream of Consciousness"...I watched classmates cringe as the Prof torn the author a new one). Make it benefit you.

I do make it benefit me, but I just wish that it could be that you write to what is asked, if you can pull it off in two or three sentences, then so be it. The minimum length ends up requiring a whole bunch of crap mixed in with the good stuff to meet the quota.

I do make it benefit me, but I just wish that it could be that you write to what is asked, if you can pull it off in two or three sentences, then so be it. The minimum length ends up requiring a whole bunch of crap mixed in with the good stuff to meet the quota.

I think that maybe if you feel like the question can be answered in two or three sentences, then you're not looking hard enough at the question.

I had to write a paper on the following: Is Act III of Seneca's Troades a tragedy within a tragedy? I suppose I could have just said "no," but that's no real answer to that question. An answer with decent reasoning, depth, and most importantly, a strong argument took me about 8 pages.

Sometimes, I have to write stuff for my job, like performance reports. Believe me when I say that the manuer stuffing doesn't end in college.

Why is it that in college, it seems that the papers you write are more focused on how much male-cow manuer you can squeeze into the required length than the actual content?

you should have seen my hisotry mid term last semester.. it was history 2 and i hadn't taken one yet and i was just taking english 1 so i didn't know what the crap i was doing and then i ended up rambling like this except it was about how the gun helped invent the piston engine and how that changed the world and how we wouldn't have cars without guns and so forth... i hate papers... math rules! i'm taking it alllllll summer! :)