College or High-High School
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Topic: College or High-High School
Posted By: oldsoldier
Subject: College or High-High School
Date Posted: 08 September 2006 at 11:36am
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Well in the mist of research, essay turnins and evaulations, and an amazing fact arises.
My American History Essay on a comparitive of Mary Rolandson and Frederick Douglass got an A, now the fun part. On my required disc was the correct essay, but somehow a draft was submitted as the hard copy. Fragemented and noted, not even in MLA, the draft had a big A on it. Will I question the reasoning....NO American History Presentation- American Long Arms and the Way of Way 1750-1783, also got an A....the live demonstration firing of a 1754 Long Land Rifle made quite an impact on the class. Blank charge only with all 18 loading steps, and the permission sequence required from the school was a hoot. Also my refinment on the professors statement that the colonials fought as Indians, where I had to correct his assumption of fact based on perception. Sociology...This was a pure slap at the professor, a 45 year old wanna-be feminist hippie, mad because she missed the 60's. "American Militarism" How America forms its perceptions of our society as a "Miltaristic" society. A comparison of current third world "dictators", along with pointed examples of the Third Reich and Soviet Russia. And how America in the light of the definition of "militarism", does not meet the standard of the definition. She did not like it, but it got a real hesitant A, based on the facts presented, and the context they were presented in. (BTW, got her to screen the first hour of Full Metal Jacket, as an example of de-humanizing, and conforming. Explained the intent of DI behavior is to get the group to form a unit, instead of individuals, where the total group goal was to hate the DI, by passing and proving him wrong) College is fun, and even in my Speech Class, the ole Drill Sergeant/Instructor came out and boomed the class in all three required speeches. The persuasive was a blast. ------------- 
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 08 September 2006 at 11:46am
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I am curious how you got the A on the first one. All teachers I have ever seen will toss a paper in the trash at the first look of it not being MLA, or at the very least in any format system. ------------- 
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Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 08 September 2006 at 1:19pm
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It is a community college, and he did figure it was a mistake and read the paper off the disc.....it helps to have a good relationship with the instructors, age and maturity has its advantages. -------------
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Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 08 September 2006 at 2:26pm
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Eh. I go to a community college as well, and my proffessor says she,
along with every other proffessor there, will not accept anything not
in MLA format.
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 08 September 2006 at 4:30pm
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MLA handbook is the college writers' bible here.
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Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 08 September 2006 at 4:41pm
| MLA? |
Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 08 September 2006 at 4:55pm
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Screw MLA. Screw it. ------------- |
Posted By: Kristofer
Date Posted: 08 September 2006 at 5:51pm
| good on you OS! |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 08 September 2006 at 5:57pm
I am sure you were kidding, but for anyone else curious.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Language_Association -------------
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Clark Kent wrote:Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 08 September 2006 at 6:31pm
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Going back to school myself after a long time away from it. I don't mind formats, I just wish I only had to deal with one. As it is, my papers have to be in MLA or APA depending upon the teacher, subject, and phase of the moon*. I can't complain too much though; although I had one teacher whose class seemed to be more about feminist studies than the actual subject I thought I signed up for, she graded very fairly despite my opinionated and non-politically correct tendencies. *Just kidding on the moon bit. ------------- 
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Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 08 September 2006 at 7:38pm
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Nope - not kidding. I am familiar with a variety of style books, but never heard of that one. Learned something new. |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 08 September 2006 at 7:40pm
Yeah. When MOST people say MLA format, they are talking about basic format and source citation organization. -------------
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Posted By: Ken Majors
Date Posted: 08 September 2006 at 11:07pm
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MLA in high school....APA in college.
Go figure... ------------- RLTW |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 09 September 2006 at 12:26am
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MLA should die... DIE I SAY! |