Oh, right, verbs.
Glimmer-optik uber alles.
Xander: Just once I'd like to run into a cult of bunny worshippers. Anya: Great. Thank you very much for those nightmares.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - May 24, 2007 2:20:40 pm PDT #9117 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Pix - May 24, 2007 2:27:20 pm PDT #9118 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Alternate English teacher perspective on new SAT: it's really nice to be able to clearly link writing skills to that oh-so-important test.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 24, 2007 2:29:42 pm PDT #9119 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
What with all the paper writing that my academic college classes required (and even some of the art classes with lecture components), I can see how having some indication of an incoming student's skill level would be very handy.
And, likely, depressing as well.
amych - May 24, 2007 2:30:42 pm PDT #9120 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Alternate English teacher perspective on new SAT: it's really nice to be able to clearly link writing skills to that oh-so-important test.
I agree that writing was shamefully ignored before, but if it's true that SAT writing scores don't correlate well with students' actual writing ability, I don't think it's the right instrument.
signed,
still bitter about tanking the GRE writing section
Pix - May 24, 2007 2:34:59 pm PDT #9121 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Oh I agree--I'm not talking about the effectiveness of the test itself; I'm talking about the usefulness of high school English teachers being able to say "You'll need this on the SAT."
amych - May 24, 2007 2:37:56 pm PDT #9122 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm talking about the usefulness of high school English teachers being able to say "You'll need this on the SAT."
Oh! In that case, GODS YES. It's an argument that's compelling for them in a way that "you'll need this for the rest of your life even if you imagine you can find a major with no writing once you get to college" just isn't.
Pix - May 24, 2007 2:40:31 pm PDT #9123 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
(Please, please fix my annoying apostrophe error in that quote? I was clearly possessed temporarily by a high school student.)
amych - May 24, 2007 2:42:13 pm PDT #9124 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
understood!
Allyson - May 24, 2007 2:42:23 pm PDT #9125 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I had to take Comp I because I did so poorly on the essay portion of my college entrance thingy. STILL BITTER.
beth b - May 24, 2007 2:43:24 pm PDT #9126 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
One of my co-workers is in college. One of her professors just gave an extension on the class paper. Because he went to some sort of seminar where it was stated that the difference between a C paper and an A paper was time. and I have to say that in my case it was very true. By my Junior year of college I was taking all english and history classes. i was always making choices about where to put my time. The GRE gave you an idea of my off the cuff writing - no hint of what I could do with work and polish. DH is one of the few people where first output and final output are very similar.