about your major in order to get your degree. Believing in Jesus is apparently good enough.

Who here thinks employers (outside of OK) are going to look favorably on graduates of UO? But they have a great football team. Yay! Rah!

she paraphrased it without anything like a citation. And the reporter should know that. The paper has been released on line. It clearly has no citations whatsoever. If the reporter is too lazy and or ignorant to have figured that out maybe the reporter should have gotten the same grades in school as this student.

If not, then the failed grade was not any sort of religious discrimination, it was fairly earned due to poor annotation.

this woman is in college not kindergarten. Citing something means not only saying what it says but saying where in the source it is said. Far from being hyper technical, it is the actual definition of citing something. One of the major reasons this student got that poor grade was that the student didn't cite any sources. It is a major reason why she deserved the poor grade.

Originally, you were angry with the reporter for carelessly using the word "cited." (At least that was my understanding of your complaint.)

Now you are saying that the real problem is that any good college student should cite chapter and verse.

Can you point me to any source for your assertion that "One of the major reasons this student got that poor grade was that the student didn't cite any sources."

I've looked at quite a few articles on this and I can't find a single one where the grader said that he gave her the zero because she didn't cite any sources. There was, near as I can tell, no requirement in the assignment to cite sources. The reasons for the zero have been widely reported.

I actually believe we're on the same side here. I'm just thinking that your ire may be somewhat misdirected.

she didn't. While she may not have deserved a zero (most rubrics have 1 as the lowest option not 0) she certainly deserved to fail. Papers in science classes are expected to provide evidence not the opinions of the writer.

Understand that you've got a mad on here. But you're getting off into the weeds with this.

(and, in no way am I defending this as a good paper. it probably deserves a low, perhaps failing, score. but, your criticism seems - both off point, and exaggerated ? )

But her paper was just a biblical opinion, based on whatever translation of the Bible she reads. For instance, some translations Genesis says God created mankind to have dominion over the world, while others translate it as man having stewardship over the world. Same passage, different translations, really different meanings. If she can’t even list her sources on her COLLEGE essay, she deserves her poor grade. I taught world religions at the high school level and even my kids knew to include a citation list. I wonder if she was homeschooled.

There was clearly no requirement in the assignment to cite sources and it pretty explicitly encouraged the students to share their personal opinions. I'm not sure what that other person's problem is with anything you've said. You've been on the mark all along.

Also, the student did not meet the 650 word requirement, so according to the instructions she was docked 10 points out of 25 automatically.

I believe the primary reason for her grade is she argued against the article by implying the article said things that it never said. In other words, she ignored the assignment to write a rant about why she believes the Bible is the all encompassing truth about everything.

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That makes sense

Essay writer failed to follow assignment requirements..

They are conflating freedom of religion with freedom of speech. They are not the same.

They can worship however they want. Their speech is subject to being criticized and analyzed and subject to sarcasm. They cannot be stopped from speaking but they cannot demand silence in response.

a college professor.... he would have failed her