Not my students, but young women I have overheard on public transport. I don't know what institutions they attend. The first was a girl on the train pulling into N Melbourne, whose speaking manner seemed to result in every sentence concluding in sarcastic inflection. She told her friend she hadn't been doing that well because she had 'plagiarism issues' but as she was speaking got out her latest piece of marked work and said she had got a credit for it. Friend: what does that mean? She: It means I'm 'getting better'. (Or maybe this just sounded sarcastic).
Second student was a girl wrapped in fake fur on the tram south Melbourne-city talking on a mobile phone. She had not done any of the reading for her subject or at least, she had just read the first sentence of every paragraph in the prescribed readings, and the essays she wrote as a result got really good marks. There's a tip.
Friday, April 25, 2008
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