Comments on: Whose line is it anyway? http://herablehands.com/2006/05/07/whose-line-is-it-anyway/ in the garden, in the kitchen and on the page Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:52:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: herablehands.com » Blog Archive » When clever words confuse http://herablehands.com/2006/05/07/whose-line-is-it-anyway/#comment-525 herablehands.com » Blog Archive » When clever words confuse Thu, 11 May 2006 12:33:48 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2006/05/07/whose-line-is-it-anyway/#comment-525 [...] Yesterday was a fine day, most of it spent schlepping Tyler to the orthodontist, then to the inlaws so he could work off some of the time he owes them for buying him an anvil. I got sucked into raking out beds, trimming an evil Barberry Bush (useless shrubbery! thanks for the 39 birthday puncture wounds!) and yanking out miles of Honeysuckle vines. Then Ty had to go to the library to return books and pick out sources for his Redemption Paper. [...] […] Yesterday was a fine day, most of it spent schlepping Tyler to the orthodontist, then to the inlaws so he could work off some of the time he owes them for buying him an anvil. I got sucked into raking out beds, trimming an evil Barberry Bush (useless shrubbery! thanks for the 39 birthday puncture wounds!) and yanking out miles of Honeysuckle vines. Then Ty had to go to the library to return books and pick out sources for his Redemption Paper. […]

]]> By: Alicia P. http://herablehands.com/2006/05/07/whose-line-is-it-anyway/#comment-494 Alicia P. Tue, 09 May 2006 20:29:01 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2006/05/07/whose-line-is-it-anyway/#comment-494 Jeezus. How did we ever make it through. Just reading about it again makes me twitch. Jeezus. How did we ever make it through. Just reading about it again makes me twitch.

]]> By: kate http://herablehands.com/2006/05/07/whose-line-is-it-anyway/#comment-471 kate Mon, 08 May 2006 12:46:26 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2006/05/07/whose-line-is-it-anyway/#comment-471 . . . I fought the whole analytical paper writing thing for a while but I get now that it's about taking several different sources and putting their info together into a new way, thereby adding to the way that knowledge is linked. Synergy! To me, that is what real knowledge is: putting the pieces together in new ways so that they touch a different part of the reader's brain, heart . . . and in the process, I get to shift what I see, too. Critical and analytical thinking is so cool . . . and God bless F and BL . . . but do you ever look back and go: what the freak was I thinking? How flimsy and non-sensical and simply head-trippy it was? . . . I fought the whole analytical paper writing thing for a while but I get now that it’s about taking several different sources and putting their info together into a new way, thereby adding to the way that knowledge is linked. Synergy! To me, that is what real knowledge is: putting the pieces together in new ways so that they touch a different part of the reader’s brain, heart . . . and in the process, I get to shift what I see, too. Critical and analytical thinking is so cool . . . and God bless F and BL . . . but do you ever look back and go: what the freak was I thinking? How flimsy and non-sensical and simply head-trippy it was?

]]> By: Lisa B-K http://herablehands.com/2006/05/07/whose-line-is-it-anyway/#comment-470 Lisa B-K Mon, 08 May 2006 03:53:57 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2006/05/07/whose-line-is-it-anyway/#comment-470 Ha. Hee! I fancy myself a writer & I could not FATHOM teaching Cody writing in the five years he was home. He goes to school this year, right, and ends up with a kickass English teacher and his writing's just... blossomed. I read all his papers first, and thank mawd for homeschooling - I know the kid's voice well and know he is writing his own words. But I give all the credit to that teacher of his. Shit! At least I have Lilly, who makes me look really good. Heh. xoxoxo Ha. Hee! I fancy myself a writer & I could not FATHOM teaching Cody writing in the five years he was home.

He goes to school this year, right, and ends up with a kickass English teacher and his writing’s just… blossomed. I read all his papers first, and thank mawd for homeschooling - I know the kid’s voice well and know he is writing his own words.

But I give all the credit to that teacher of his.

Shit! At least I have Lilly, who makes me look really good. Heh.

xoxoxo

]]> By: misere http://herablehands.com/2006/05/07/whose-line-is-it-anyway/#comment-469 misere Mon, 08 May 2006 00:52:11 +0000 http://herablehands.com/2006/05/07/whose-line-is-it-anyway/#comment-469 i've been hearing that now there are programs available that'll run entire essays and compare the sentences in them with what's out there on the net and pick out the plagirized bits for the teacher. but good luck with Tyler. maybe it'd help if you could help him understand how much more fun it is, and how good it feels to churn out a 4000 word essay based on information you actually understand and logically put together. i’ve been hearing that now there are programs available that’ll run entire essays and compare the sentences in them with what’s out there on the net and pick out the plagirized bits for the teacher.

but good luck with Tyler. maybe it’d help if you could help him understand how much more fun it is, and how good it feels to churn out a 4000 word essay based on information you actually understand and logically put together.

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