Best Paper I've Ever Seen

[GePap]

"I only named it best paper for the humor value, not literary or persuasive."

I doubt Solomwi was the professor, and what you quoted was his opinion of it (hence the title of the thread). I failt to see why a class on rhetorics would be discussin spotted owls.

[Q Classic]

it was, at least, funnier than speer's eagle joke.

[DinoDoc]

Crap paper. I've done better work 10 minutes before class.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I failt to see why a class on rhetorics would be discussin spotted owls.

So the issue of spotted owls is forbidden from all rhetorics classes?

[GePap]

No, but using Occam's Razor, this most liekly was NOT.

Even for a rhetoric's class, this is a poor paper.

[Imran Siddiqui]

No one is disputing it wasn't a poor paper. They are merely saying it may not have been as poor as people may think.

Besides, the Occam's Razor arguement isn't what you said. You said you can't see why a class on rhetorics would be discussing spotted owls AT ALL. Not just based on this paper, but at all.

[Q Classic]

occam's razor is a sub-par improvisational group.

[Bosh]

What if it's a persuasive speech for Speech class?

You've never participated in formal debate have you?

[SlowwHand]

Where did I write formal debate, numbnuts?

[Japher]

has no topic sentence or thesis sentence

Yes he did:

Spotted owls are stupid.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

Besides, the Occam's Razor arguement isn't what you said. You said you can't see why a class on rhetorics would be discussing spotted owls

AT ALL

. Not just based on this paper, but at all.

If I saw someone post a paper on fluid dynamics, it could very well come from a creative writing class, NO?

Yes, IN THEORY it could be. Not by far even a reasonable assumption to make though.

IN making an unreasonable assumption, it is for you to come up with evidence.

[East Street Trader]

I dispute it is poor.

It is not.

He speaks with feeling in a distinctive voice on a subject about which it would be woefully easy to be dull.

Did you read it to the end with interest? You did.

Do you finish up knowing exactly what this guy thinks? You do.

That is english of a very high standard.

He even gives the impression here and there of drawing upon some personal experience.

If you had the luck, as a teacher, to have something handed in as lively as this once a month you would feel privileged. And you would know that you have every chance in the world to stimulate the mind which produced it.

I must tell you that none of the schoolchildren of Apolyton have ever posted here anything half as good.

[Fake Boris]

If the facts he puts forward are indeed true, this paper is not all that bad. Give him a penalty for not citing them. I think he could squeeze a D and avoid failure.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Japher


Yes he did:

Re-read my statement on that issue.

[GePap]

Originally posted by East Street Trader
I dispute it is poor.

It is not.

He speaks with feeling in a distinctive voice on a subject about which it would be woefully easy to be dull.

Did you read it to the end with interest? You did.

Do you finish up knowing exactly what this guy thinks? You do.

That is english of a very high standard.

He even gives the impression here and there of drawing upon some personal experience.

If you had the luck, as a teacher, to have something handed in as lively as this once a month you would feel privileged. And you would know that you have every chance in the world to stimulate the mind which produced it.

I must tell you that none of the schoolchildren of Apolyton have ever posted here anything half as good.

Bull. Papers don't get graded on entertainment value. Any teacher that would grade this paper highly simply for its tone and wit, instead of basing it on what the aim of a paper is, is a poor teacher. He wants to be funny? Write it to the college paper as a comedy piece.