I present her cousins, fraternal twins -- Egalitarian Eric and Listing Lizzy.
They also seem to be from the cloning program -- set on "high."
Apparently Carrie, Lizzy and Eric were in the same class taught by Eve R Y'otherinstructor.
Because they all swear that Prof. Y'Otherinstructor has been accepting cut-and-pasted bulleted lists as original work. It seems the major qualifier is so long that they include a citation (e.g. "www.lameass_content_farm.com"), then it is permissible to stitch together an answer with lists culled from the first three hits from Google.
But Eric ... he adds a special twist.
In a previous teaching life, I had the pleasure of meeting him (and his parents) while he was still in middle school. His parents were incensed that students were not permitted to bring food into the classroom, largely because they were inveterate slobs.
"But you have a cup of coffee on your desk. Why can't my son have a drink and his breakfast at his? You aren't any more important than he is," they said with all seriousness.
Well, Eric's in college now with mommy and daddy's impertinence well ingrained!
After suggesting that comments regarding his barely acceptable work was just my "opinion," Eric added this special rejoinder.
When providing feedback, I’d appreciate it if you would not put things in bold, and/or use capital letters. This feels to me as if you are yelling at me, which I do not appreciate. I am trying my best to meet your standards, I would greatly appreciate it if you could try to meet mine as well.
I had to read the last line a couple times: I am trying my best to meet your standards, I would greatly appreciate it if you could try to meet mine as well. .
Yo, fuckflake! Following the published academic integrity policy isn't about you meeting my standards and -- hell to the no! -- it is absifuckinglutely not about me meeting yours!
First off, I can't speak for Eve R Y'Otherinstructor, but of the many colleagues I have met, not one has endorsed the lazyass practice of cutting-and-pasting lists -- or actually ANY content, for that matter, -- as being acceptable.
And, yanno what, oh ye of the sensitive constitution, I've only been teaching online for ten years or so, which means I am totally unfamiliar with Netiquette. But, as you have glossed over, my comments to you are not ENTIRELY IN CAPS or overflowing with boldness. I judiciously use these techniques for EMPHASIS in this the devoid of body language or inflections of tone online world.
Where is my beating stick?
And here is some cut and pasted stuff, taken from the second Joe Corlett thread.
ReplyDelete"I can't see any of the pictures or see the links because I avoided Facebook entirely....I just feel that this whole thing has been a judgement of Skeeze-Americans. And Skeeze-Americans made this country great - think of the stuff we would have missed if people like Larry Flynt, Peter Bogdanovich, Woody Allen, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Crane, and many others had been kept from the levels of skeeziness they needed to succeed."
I'm stealing from myself!
@Strelnikov: you need a signed permission form before you can re-use your own work. Please see me after class.
DeleteI don't usually cut & paste stuff, but it seemed to fit the post in a vague way. That I think everybody had moved on by the timer I wrote that bit on Skeeze-Americans (did you know that Ginsberg was a NAMBLA member?)
DeleteI'm a little torn on this one.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, where the hell does this little shit get off? Ignorance is no excuse for trying to stick up for your crap work. Granted there is a little transition as students are rudely informed that half-assing it is not real scholarship and undergraduate work is intro scholarship stuff. So that's always tough for the little dears. But college is about growing and learning -- when they resist the learning process, I'm always a little bewildered.
That being said, I do have to say something about bold and caps. It really is "yelling." It feels like yelling when a commenter writes I FUCKING HATE THIS ABORTION DEBATE in the comments section of HuffPo, and it feels like yelling if a superior of mine emails me and uses caps or bold to get a point across.
So I'd say, rule of thumb, don't "yell" at your students. Do not use bold until absolutely necessary.
But again -- WHO IS THIS LITTLE SHIT?? My god, to say "please try to meet mine" what the hell. Makes me want to elbow him in the back of the head.
See? Torn.
I understand your point AdMonk ...
DeleteBut I really don't think I'm violating the Global Web Compact on Courtesy with a comment like:
PLEASE stop cutting-and-pasting content.
And yet, this sentence bleeds frustration at me, the reader. It says "I am so frustrated at your cut-and-paste situation that I cannot contain myself to speak evenly."
DeleteGranted, cutting and pasting is egregious, but the caps/bold/underline does translate into a raised voice. Since I teach online a lot, I find that I have to translate my fonts and such into raised voices, etc.
Of course it bleeds frustration, especially when it is the umpteenth time I've included it.
DeleteI don't know about your online dears, but mine seem evenly split between those who:
> complain they never get any feedback because they ignore the multiple announcements telling them where it is;
> simply ignore its content and repeat the same mistakes over and over again; and
> complain about HOW (woops, see emphasis again) it is presented.
Yeah, there is plenty of frustration.
And, for the record, if one of these students were in front of me and giving me, face-to-face, the same sort of deer-in-the-headlights, "What? Really? I'm not supposed to cut-and-paste?" the tone of my voice would likely rise a bit.
"PLEASE stop cutting and pasting..."
DeleteThere are worse things to say to a person.
Carrie's cousins Egalitarian Eric and Listing Lizzy are finally starting to get the netiquette picture. Democracy is all inclusive and the world is moving that way good netiquette willing. Education and the internet is the final frontier for nationalism.
ReplyDelete"Dear Entitled Eric,
ReplyDeleteI understand your position, and I promise that I will only use caps or boldface to emphasize very important points in my feedback to you.
Now GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS.
Yours, Aware and Scared"
Authority is something the modern snowflake simply cannot fathom. They act genuinely surprised when confronted with it. It's no damn wonder, since they've been allowed by their parents to negotiate everything, starting with bedtime when they were toddlers. This makes it easy to understand the grievous harm inflicted on this great country (and especially on my fair state) by lawyers. In "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," Gibbon mentions how lawyers and litigiousness became prominent around the time of Diocletian. Dr. Spock had his head up his ass.
ReplyDeleteYou could try, "Please, for the love of all that resides in the holy firmament, stop cutting-and-pasting content." Or: "Puh-leeze etc." Or Ppppppppppllllllleeeeeeze.
ReplyDelete