课程论文：你不爱写，我更不爱看
Everybody in college hates papers. Students hate writing them so much that they buy， borrow， or steal them instead. Plagiarism is now so commonplace that if we flunked every kid who did it， we’d have a worse attrition1） rate than a MOOC2）. And on those rare occasions undergrads do deign3） to compose their own essays， said exegetic4） masterpieces usually take them all of half an hour at 4 a.m. to write， and consist accordingly of 'arguments“ that are tangentially5） related to the coursework， font-manipulated to meet the minimum required page-count. Oh， 'attitudes about cultures have changed over time？“ I’m so glad you let me know.
Nobody hates writing papers as much as college instructors hate grading papers （and no， having a robot do it is not the answer）. Students of the world： You think it wastes 45 minutes of your sexting6） time to pluck out three quotes from The Sun Also Rises7）， summarize the same four plot points 50 times until you hit Page 5， and then crap out a two-sentence conclusion？ It wastes 15 hours of my time to mark up my students’ flaccid8） theses and non sequitur9） textual 'evidence，“ not to mention abuse of the comma that should be punishable by some sort of law”all so that you can take a cursory10） glance at the grade and then chuck the paper forever.
What’s more， if y...
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