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      In my meta-analysis of this paper I will propose that the writer being honest and vulgar to the reader in a professional setting is actually a treatise to demonstrate the effect of the language of “doublespeak” within 1984. in this paper I will…

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    Jesus fuck, you censor the word “motherfucker” but leave the author’s name intact?

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      The water mark makes me believe whatever BoredPanda is got some rights to share the tweet and they censored mother fucker, but maybe the tweeter didn’t care to have their name censored.

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      I’m curious how 1984 is AP Lit. We read that years before AP classes were even available… Does that mean they get college credit for reading Orwell now?

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        There are university classes analyzing children’s picture books. It’s not about the difficulty of the book, it’s about the level of the analysis.

        1984 is quite unique as a piece of fiction, since almost a third of the book is an appendix about language and history. It’s an excellent book to analyze.

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        The difficulty of texts from AP literature versus my honors English courses prior to it weren’t very different. And no, you got college credit for completing the AP exam which involved reading passages and writing essays, not merely reading Orwell lol.

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    Because I’ve seen this sort of thing happen several times in various contexts, I’ve long said that you should never write something you don’t want to send. Not even as a joke that you plan to immediately delete. It’s amazing how your brain will unexpectedly hit “send” instead of “delete.”

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      My takeaway is different. It’s bad that teachers force repression of honest, raw expression by punishing stuff like this.

      That was funny. That was a well written intro in any context where bumsticks are optional.

      These teachers and their consensus in style is like the old suburban “keeping up appearances” types of academia.

      “No, my students aren’t struggling mentally, they’re just doing their work diligently.” There’s no excessive stress or dysfunction under the surface, everything is as it should be.

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        I’ve never had this experience. Almost all of my professors and most of teachers would have seen this, chuckled, accepted my apology, and then requested a better intro due the next day.

        Most of my professors explicitly recognized that we would finish things last minute, cram the night before, be sleep deprived, or otherwise not be great with our schedule. And they did not discourage us with that information but rather tried to aid or alleviate it. I had professors say “I scheduled this exam to be due at 5:30pm on a Friday so that you can enjoy your weekend and not worry about completing this at midnight at a party.”

        I think many teachers are much cooler than their students realize, they’re just people and while they have expectations, most teachers won’t spit in your face when you’re expressing yourself genuinely or trying in earnest.

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        Enh. Depends on the program. I have a diploma in TV production.

        First step is knowing who’s marking it, their personality, and if they’re going to be bored reading 100 of these or if they actually love punishing students.

        I threw a couple jokes in my final essay and got 100% :)

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        No good teacher at the college level would punish this. They might get dinged for profanity at the high school or lower levels, but it’s still a great intro.

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          You should be able to go into your sent folder. Click open the email in a new window (not auto-preview). Then File > message recall. It might be different depending on what you’re using, but most of the time you look around the sent folder.

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      For projects like this (longish and a product of several sessions) including levity for the sake of your own motivation is fine.

      What isn’t fine is missing proofreading steps before sending.

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      I write everything (that might be important) in notepad first, then adjust and send, so I don’t slip any "motherfucker"s or "dumbass"es in there

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    I had an english professor that actually demanded an intro like this. He said write ANYTHING as long as you can hook the reader and link it to a thesis statement, and there is no bar to that link.

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      Came here to say the same, I’d just read the intro, flick through it a bit and give her an A

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    I used to write intros like that as placeholders because I always wrote the real intro once I was sure where I was going with a paper. I learned to make placeholder text red and all caps after almost making that mistake.

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    Contact your prof and explain the mistake. When I was a prof, I would have been amused by your brain fart and probably wouldn’t have docked you much, if at all, if you explained what happened.

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    Pretty much how I wrote all my papers in college…finals week was 4 days of writing papers with a crash after.