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 Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:24 am
I have a friend who works at as a tutor for English at our city college. She is a walking thesaurus, and quite gifted in the English Arts. After working for only two weeks, she has sent me this amusing email that I feel compelled to share, for hilarity's sake.
Perhaps this sounds a bit snippy but... I hereby declare this the (mine anyway) first two commandments of tutorial sessions...for those receiving the help:
Thou shalt take responsibility for, as you say, "f******* up" thine own paper and not accuse he/she who has come to thy timely aid of either doing this or greatly contributing to that huge linguistic SNAFU thou fully intendest to submit for a grade two hours hence.
Thou shalt not argue lengthily and boisterously with thy tutor over the "rightness" of thy grammatical errors. Verily, thou canst not write the way thou speakest--there are rules and precedents!
That's all...done venting...but very soon I may, indeed, have my own decalogue!
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:52 pm
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Biblical speech just fries my brain when I try to read it...
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:03 pm
That's incredible! All those years spent in my grandparents' church have finally paid off!
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:46 pm
That's great. If someone is going to a tutor for help, he or she obviously knows there will be problems in the paper and has no right to argue grammar points. Tutors fix the paper you "f***ed up." I certainly wouldn't want to tick off someone tutoring me. Imagine the damage a tutor could do by instructing you to do something completely incorrect. Chances are, the tutor could blame it on the student saying, "Well, he/she just didn't accurately understand what I was trying to convey."
You really can't right like you talk. I do that some in informal conversations online (notably an excessive use of contractions and run on sentences produced via commas), but I clean up my writing a lot when it is a paper I need to turn in.
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