Nikolai

Oh the nonexitent god, banish my Enlish teacher to hell for all eternity. The pedantic woman cannot, under any cirumstances, accept any work even one day late. Now in theory I understand why she does it (preparing for college and all that), but why must she ruin my high A every nine weeks with a zero on some useless assignment? Today I come in with these uselles journal things she makes us do, and since my laptop (all high school students were issued i-books) was broken and the priter at home was out of order, I wrote it by hand. Now I could see taking off some points, maybe giving me a 50, but a goddamn zero just hurts my grade so much!

And her politics are slightly to the left of Genghis Khan. She made this kid stand up for the pledge, so now I wrote a whole paper on the illigalilties of her actions and turned it in. She just makes me want to continualy do stuff to get on her nerves

Arikay

First of all,
"(all high school students were issued i-books)"

Lucky bastard.

I can understand what you mean. in high school (speaking of iBooks) I had a teacher that really pissed me off once, well more than once, but this bugged me. I had written some paper and I used the lowercase i uppercase next letter in the title, like iMac. She marked me down an entire grade for improper capitalization in the title.

I also had a teacher that was not a teacher at all. I quickly decided to just fail his class and bug him. I slept through his book on tapes (yes, book on tapes was how he, um "taught"). Luckily for me I failed, as I went to another school for summer school and had a great english teacher.

Anyway, If you trully want a good grade, the only thing you can really do is just suck it up and go with it. However, if its not as important to you, then yeah, go for the more rebelious version. Like writing papers about what she does, etc.

There are some people that just never should become teachers. Some are bad teachers, and others have a bad attitude that makes them bad at being a "teacher."

BioBeing

Based on your spelling, she obviously isn't even a very good English teacher

Nikolai

I typed all of that in class. Didn't really check spelling or anything. I'm also more of a hard sciences guy so English is as unimportant as it could get.

Ensign Morituri

Edited because I should have heeded the post title. Nevermind.

BioBeing

No it isn't! I hate reviewing papers that look as if they were submitted by a bunch of monkeys that got bored of defecating on their computers and decided to try writing a science paper instead. I have sent papers back because I cannot understand what the authors are saying, or feel like I am being treated like a proof reader. So, for your professional writing, use correct English, and a spell checker.

[If English is not your first language - get a good proof reader or two as well].

Nikolai

Oh, I agree 100%. I consider myself to have a descent enough grasp of English to write coherent science papers. In fact, I can produce a well-written research paper on any topic if required. Though my spelling my indeed suck I don't see how that specific thing will affect my writing in a significant manner (spell check and all that)

Defiant Heretic

Well, I've always considered my English courses to be somewhat useless, but sadly, some people still need to be taught how to write in their native tongue, even while in college. I recently had to proofread a classmate's paper for my technical writing course. The cretin still hadn't figured out the difference between "there" and "their". (not to mention "variety" and "verity")

Unfortunately, those of us who are actually literate still have to sit through lessons designed for these future burger flippers. (Or in the American economic system, CEOs, but that's another rant.)

Forcing a child to stand up for the pledge of allegiance was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943).

(By the way, most of your spelling errors appear to be the result of careless typing. You'll get the hang of it eventually. In the meantime, a spellchecker will indeed help.)

Nikolai

Barnette is exactly what I used in the paper I wrote in which I defended the right not to say the pledge. As a matter of fact, if she continues disregarding this rulling I might have to contact the local ACLU.

MJones

Even if you use a spell checker, you still want eye your paper for spelling mistakes. Twelve years ago my college English teacher once knocked a few points off my paper (though not a whole letter grade - she was a nice lady ) for a small word that I'd misspelled (due to a typo) that happened to be a similar, correctly spelled word.

All these spell checkers do is a lookup of each word against an internal list of English words. If the word is not in the list, it's misspelled.

Grammar checkers can detect misused words, but I don't really trust them.

Point to my babbling is: Use your spell checker, but proofread after.

Also, always proofread to see if you any words out.

Dirty Dog