Student Essay Insanity #61!
Picture from Engrish FunnyNot that there's going to be anyone around to read this post—I bet most readers have already left for their July 4th destinations—but I couldn't stand the thought of not sharing more of this awfulness with you.
These gems are from the D2U Freshman Writing Improvement Project. The prompt asked students to describe an assignment where they learned a lot; many of the essays we rated came from biology, botany, geography, environmental science, and chemistry courses. And as always, these bloopers are from real essays, written by real students, and are real(ly) awful. I neither could nor would shit you about that.
- With this in mind I found that I was having a great deal of those oh huh moments.
- There are try a lot of thing that we as organisms take for granted a magnetic field, weather, and an atmosphere, just to name a few.
- The trees were donated because they were still being detained in pots.
- Another county that gave me a hard time was Mauritius it is very tiny and located between Africa and India, but I confused it with Mauritania.
- Not only are they [trees] beautiful, but they also provide us with shade and act as windbreakers as well.
Labels: Student Essay Insanity, Teaching, Writing
posted by Miss Kitty @ 7:50 AM
5 Comments:
Do you know how often I used to see "sentences" like #2????
At least they wrote "take for granted" and not "take for granite."
I'm just sayin'.
We as organisms can only say, "Oh huh."
Who's having an "oh huh" moment? KC and the Sunshine Band?
What do you mean, there won't be anyone to read this post?
Now that I've read this, I'm having a HA! HEE! moment, myself.
And now I'm off to the orchard to get myself a new windbreaker. As an organism I take wind for granted it is very gusty, but I confuse it with breeze, just to name a few.
We have to free the detained trees and use them as windbreakers!
Student Essay Insanity is one of those things that just doesn't get old. :)
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