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re: Univ of Florida professor lowers grade for use of the non gender neutral word “man”
Posted on 4/26/17 at 6:27 pm to Lordofwrath88
Posted on 4/26/17 at 6:27 pm to Lordofwrath88
Poirier should be grateful that he received a B- for that drivel. His grammar and use of pronouns are the least of his problems.
Witness the opening sentence:
The whole essay is like that. What the hell did he say? I'm shocked that this is from a UF student. Isn't that school supposed to be academically elite? For shame.
The professor can mandate the use of gender neutral words. If he did, then Poirier has no argument. It can be a learning experience for students.
I think Professor Davis was remiss in not pointing out the student's very clumsy attempt at stringing together cogent thoughts about water and mankind. Thoughtful paper? No, and it's disturbing to think that it's just a one-page essay, and double spaced at that.
Witness the opening sentence:
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Water is a thing prior to man, elemental in the original sense, it is totally integral to the experience of living phenomena, it is being and becoming in most of what can be witnessed.
The whole essay is like that. What the hell did he say? I'm shocked that this is from a UF student. Isn't that school supposed to be academically elite? For shame.
The professor can mandate the use of gender neutral words. If he did, then Poirier has no argument. It can be a learning experience for students.
I think Professor Davis was remiss in not pointing out the student's very clumsy attempt at stringing together cogent thoughts about water and mankind. Thoughtful paper? No, and it's disturbing to think that it's just a one-page essay, and double spaced at that.
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Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:08 pm to Kentucker
the fact that he focuses on that over every other terrible part of the paper is even more pathetic.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:43 pm to Kentucker
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What the hell did he say?
Water has been around a lot longer than people, is necessary for our survival, and can be found in most anything.
The problem with that particular sentence isn't the message but the typical purple prose used by most college freshmen that are still figuring out 1.) they don't know everything and 2.) effectively communicating an idea doesn't mean sounding like the world's worst slam poet.
ETA: For what is supposed to be a history paper, there is supposed to be an adherence to academic language and "humankind" is the more scholarly accepted word than "mankind." A trivial thing to take points off for relative to the tonal issues that plague the rest of the paper, but technically incorrect nonetheless. Methinks y'all are trying to make this into an SJW thing when, really, it's just a poorly written paper for a college history course.
This post was edited on 4/26/17 at 8:51 pm
Posted on 4/26/17 at 10:24 pm to Kentucker
I'm probably totally incorrect, but I could have sworn that the APA style of writing demands that you use both major gender pronouns when you make a reference to gender.
This is more on the student, though, beause he should have used Mankind or Humankind rather than simply ''man''. His usage is archaic and may not be within the guidelines of his essay.
This is more on the student, though, beause he should have used Mankind or Humankind rather than simply ''man''. His usage is archaic and may not be within the guidelines of his essay.
Posted on 4/27/17 at 6:32 am to Kentucker
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Water is a thing prior to man, elemental in the original sense, it is totally integral to the experience of living phenomena, it is being and becoming in most of what can be witnessed.
I'd have given him an F for this alone.
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