excelsiorlef
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Given the context of this thread, and this post, the bolded just is delightful.
Got an F on a college essay for swearing?
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Given the context of this thread, and this post, the bolded just is delightful.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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How in the fuck did you think that was a good idea?
I dont even understand how you could come about a context where that would even work, assuming any semblance of proper academic style.
I dont even understand how you could come about a context where that would even work, assuming any semblance of proper academic style.
This thread keeps on delivering.
How About No
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also don't load your essay with ellipses or smilies...;]
brianmcdoogle
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Oh, great. Now we got a mod up in here trying to censor some speech!!!
(Please post the offending paragraph or something, OP. I need it)
Skiesofwonder
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NoblesseOblige
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Professor Lich
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Here's a kicker, what if you sourced information / quotes that had swears in them? Might be able to get away with that.
Don't actually do that.
RiccochetJ
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I'm shocked.
No one got hurt? What kind of English classes are you taking where people are getting hurt for poor writing?
Geno Breaker
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Lol what were you expecting?
excelsiorlef
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Well god bless you for doing so because that post while very wrong, was very very very amusing.
texhnolyze
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I can imagine your grade for the essay.
Dice//
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lol for real
Unless you're researching the word or quoting someone, I wouldn't have done that.
Ask to resubmit and apologize and give the "my grades are really important to me" line.
Well GAF is obviously not in a position to help you, so why don't you write to the head of the department telling him that "This bitch who calls herself a professor teaching her fucking joke of a class failed you because she obviously does not know that 'fuck' and 'shit' are proper English words that are suitable to be used in your goddammed essay submission"?
/s obviously, or maybe not obvious enough to the OP
Grim Patron
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Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunt.
I've recently discovered that the Brits like to put punctuation outside quotes while the US standard is put them inside.
So this is some next level shit for me.
RadioJoNES64
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I once put a picture of Sans from Undertale in my essay and got a B.
SchrodingerC
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Yeahhh, using swear words in a college essay is absolutely not advisable.
You screwed up OP.
You could try talking to your professor about the essay if it nuked your overall grade and ask for mercy, otherwise just take the F and learn from it.
You screwed up OP.
You could try talking to your professor about the essay if it nuked your overall grade and ask for mercy, otherwise just take the F and learn from it.
old manatee
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You said too many swears. It's like a PG-13 movie where you get to say 'fuck' only a single time.
A Fish Aficionado
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The OP is never coming back. 😂
Now that's a paper I'd like to read! :lol
excelsiorlef
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Because h had to make it clear how he personally felt.... in an academic essay... I love it.
ThreePiMatt
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Seriously. If someone thought that it was acceptable to swear in a college essay I'd probably wager the rest of the essay isn't going to be Pulitzer Prize-quality either.
GiantBombGamer
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Common sense seems to have escaped you. Legit hilarious that you thought that would be acceptable.
makingmusic476
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Getting an F seems pretty harsh. I could see knocking you down a grade or two and sternly telling you that that's a terrible idea.
Curse words are, essentially, slang. They have no place in an academic paper.
Curse words are, essentially, slang. They have no place in an academic paper.
What did he mean by this?
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Give us an example of how you used the f-word in a sentence
brianmcdoogle
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Unless you're quoting someone word to word, I don't think swearing yourself is a good idea for an academic paper. The language expected in this kind of work has a more professional approach. Ask if you can resubmit an edited version and make sure your teacher knows why you felt the need to use such words on the matter, and apologize too.
OK, I know I'm piling on by posting again, but your "feelings" were almost certainly irrelevant to the essay. So, adding in this language (in addition to being inappropriate) added nothing to the topic.. I'm sure your professor wanted you to discuss facts or the larger social implications of this abuse or brainstorm solutions...anything other than: "This fucking shit is horrible." Adding in swear words in this context just signals: "I am adding in filler! See that I care! Please don't fail me!"
EDIT: Yeah, like excelsiorlef said!
Someone should probably tell him not to write his essays using "I think" it would blow his mind.
excelsiorlef
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In the immortal words of William Shakespeare in his opening line of "A Treatise on the Modern Fucking College Essay":
"To swear or to swear a lot that is question, now give me an A and stop asking me to censor myself you stupid fucking jerk."
"To swear or to swear a lot that is question, now give me an A and stop asking me to censor myself you stupid fucking jerk."
MindCollizion
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I'm actually surprised you're even in college, OP.
Night Angel
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GAF keeps on giving.
You just get exposure to all kinds of folks.
You just get exposure to all kinds of folks.
What do you mean I can't write my essay in emoji?
NinjaCoachZ
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Mumfie wouldn't want this.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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Nah, that shit should be pretty obvious, like not turning in an essay written with crayon on a Toaster Strudel box.
chronic_archaic
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This thread went fast... wow.
Okay, so it looks like I'm in the wrong, but, this doesn't explain why I need to censor myself as a writer. Maybe I'm simply unfiltered but I think that's a good thing, I figured in high school you'd avoid that, but in college you're an adult, you can freely write how you want and get your opinions across without having to worry if you tailor it to whoever is reading it, since it's your work. Maybe I'm getting angry about nothing however I don't understand how your choice of language is something you can be penalized for. I re-read the essay and admittedly I recognize some things that could be fixed but even with that scrutiny and barring in mind this isn't my writing course a B seems perfectly fair. Have a read but I know I'm about to get dogged on like crazy regardless. No, I'll just post the relevant uses of swears. It's partially too personally and I'm not rewriting the damn thing.
"Watching the film was really sad, quite morbid, fucked up, and too close to home"
"It went from "I don't care about you" to "fuck you" and I still feel that
way to this day"
"They're awful, sickening, fucked realities"
"The emotional problems my REDACTED still suffers from REDACTED, I've came to the point
where if REDACTED REDACTED died today, right now, I wouldn't give a shit"
"Apologizes that are all bullshit and
emotions that end up with the person hurting more and more"
Okay, so it looks like I'm in the wrong, but, this doesn't explain why I need to censor myself as a writer. Maybe I'm simply unfiltered but I think that's a good thing, I figured in high school you'd avoid that, but in college you're an adult, you can freely write how you want and get your opinions across without having to worry if you tailor it to whoever is reading it, since it's your work. Maybe I'm getting angry about nothing however I don't understand how your choice of language is something you can be penalized for. I re-read the essay and admittedly I recognize some things that could be fixed but even with that scrutiny and barring in mind this isn't my writing course a B seems perfectly fair. Have a read but I know I'm about to get dogged on like crazy regardless. No, I'll just post the relevant uses of swears. It's partially too personally and I'm not rewriting the damn thing.
"Watching the film was really sad, quite morbid, fucked up, and too close to home"
"It went from "I don't care about you" to "fuck you" and I still feel that
way to this day"
"They're awful, sickening, fucked realities"
"The emotional problems my REDACTED still suffers from REDACTED, I've came to the point
where if REDACTED REDACTED died today, right now, I wouldn't give a shit"
"Apologizes that are all bullshit and
emotions that end up with the person hurting more and more"
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