Thursday, February 01, 2007

Global Warming Soapbox

Because whit found this paper in the library, we now have the knowledge necessary to save the planet!

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15 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

to be fair, the question marks often appear when you try to transfer a paper either through email or when you switch platforms, etc.
author, however, was too stupid to actually edit this paper and discover the shoddy punctuation.


who uses "think [insert example here]" in a paper? isn't that what e.g. and i.e. and for example are all for?

7:11 AM  
Blogger AHFB said...

yeah, I knew it had to be something like that. I wasn't really saying anything against the question marks (other than if she's gonna turn it in she better have fixed it). I just knew I had to at least acknowledge that they exist.

9:22 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

She does so many things I hate:

1. Uses "one" as a pronoun. Ew, seriously.

2. Asks a questions and doesn't ever answer it.

3. Doesn't justify her margins. the funniest part of that is "Science" hanging out on the third page. And before you comment attack me, I know that this is probably a rough draft, but still, just justify the stupid thing.

4. Overgeneralizes everything. Everything.

Loved the commentary... made the paper so enjoyable :)

11:40 AM  
Blogger AHFB said...

"If [the glaciers] continue melting at their current rate, where will that leave 40% of the world?s population?"

She never specifies which 40% of the population she's talking about either. If she's talking about the 40% that happens to live way above sea level, the answer is that nothing will happen.

Joel: Yeah, I could have written this paper having watched like two seconds of an evening newscast. If I find an opinion paper around the fishbowl, it often has a sentence that starts something like, "We can all agree that..."

And I haven't filled out any what's-your-opinion-on-global-warming surveys recently

12:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ARE YOU A GOOOOOOOOOOON?

1:35 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"1. Uses 'one' as a pronoun. Ew, seriously."

So? What would you prefer people to use?

2:25 PM  
Blogger whit said...

I don't care what people use. One is just not a good pronoun in my book anon.

2:35 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well, using "you" is considered bad form.

2:53 PM  
Blogger AHFB said...

:iiam:

3:04 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This was the funniest commentary I've seen. I love your cow and Adam & Eve drawings.

5:54 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Question marks ALSO appear when you've copied and pasted from the internet and the character isn't recognized by Microsoft Word. Oop!


I picture polar bears cowering in fear. They are roaring "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!"

6:24 PM  
Blogger malaria bordeaux said...

I have no idea how (almost) 5 pages were created from that. Oh wait, saying the same thing over... and over... again probably does the trick.

As usual, commentary is great. Your stick figures were beautiful.

7:22 PM  
Blogger Megan E. said...

also, i've been expressly told not to justify my margins in at least two classes...though i hate to be fair to this one, obviously

11:33 PM  
Blogger AHFB said...

To clarify, the guy w/ the "it is a mystery tag" in today's daily isn't me, but I told him he had to do it once he came up w/ the idea and called me. Yay for goons

12:37 AM  
Blogger Katherine said...

Your commentary about this paper was one of the funniest so far. You sounded like you were in the sidelines encouraging a runner of a marathon.

A runner that was last.

And had no brain.

2:27 AM  

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