Reply to DD refused to edit her essay..

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "DD refused to edit her essay.."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell her you will not pay for the application fee until she fixes it. She can fix it or find a way to pay for it herself.[/quote]

Fix it according to whom???

From an ethical standpoint, the essay should be only the child’s work. Forcing a kid to take someone else’s edits or not apply is absurd and wrong.[/quote]

I didn’t say force her I just wouldn’t pay for the application. Having someone proofread an essay is not unethical, many college professors will proofread essays during office hours if asked. The fact that she’s being completely stubborn and unwilling to receive feedback is why I wouldn’t pay for it. If she agreed to meet with a teacher or librarian that could make suggestions I’d be ok with that whether she takes the suggestions and applies them or not. Allowing a child to completely disregard the draft writing process for an essay when they’re applying to college just sets them up to think this will be ok in college as well. The point is to teach the lesson and help expand essay writing abilities and learn to accept feedback as part of the process, not to force changes.[/quote]

It’s her essay. It’s her writing. The college is judging her.

And no, good professors don’t proofread essays. They might point out several examples of errors or poor stylistic choices and then tell the student to carefully read their paper and find similar errors and fix them. They do NOT proofread. Please do not teach your kid that she should ask her college professors to proofread her essay in office hours.

Signed, a writing professor [/quote]

The good ones will. If they don’t most campuses also have writing centers.[/quote]

THIS. WTF to all the people saying profs won't proofread. I taught writing at the grad school level in a specific field of writing. I would absolutely proofread and any good prof will, too. That's is part of the writing process.[/quote]

That is because you taught writing. Profs don't proofread papers.[/quote]

They did for me and I almost majored in English, took many lit and "writing" courses. Apparently my Midwest, Big State U had better profs than what a lot of you had.

The class I used to teach involved a specific type of writing, synthesizing a lot of written material into a final product. I'm not sure why you feel the need to diminish that to prove some point. [/quote]

At my university we would call this level of guidance "spoon feeding." It does not encourage growth or independence on the part of budding scholars. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics