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kyo
09-24-2008, 05:19 AM
my little brother was given the opportunity to do some extra credit, but part of the assignment was a page-long, single spaced, 12 font response as to why he chose the two scientists that he did reports on.

So, to help him out, I composed the first paragraph only

When the opportunity arose for me to perform an assignment that would be graded and used as extra-credit point- which will be added in to the total amount of points that will eventually become my final grade for this first quarter, which will be added to whatever amount I will achieve during the course of my second quarter and be averaged to form a numerical amount that will be referenced as a “semester average” in most school districts- I decided to take positive action and perform these tasks that were assigned, broadcasted, and graciously offered by the teacher Mr. Phillips, who is employed by *edited for privacy; I traveled to my local library, as instructed by Mr. Phillips, to perform tasks, that are similar to research, on two scientists named Gerty Theresa Cori and Jane Cooke Wright- both of whom are female in gender, a requirement dictated by Mr. Phillips. When I had arrived at the local library, I was extremely distraught and discontent to find that among those scientists, of whom were female in gender, Madame Curie was not one of them; she- being a scientist who is female in gender, thus fulfilling the requirement dictated by Mr. Phillips- helped create the theory of radioactivity, with her husband Pierre, as well as the discovery of two new elements, radium and polonium; despite my extreme disappointment at the absence of Madame Curie, I proceeded to perform research procedures and chose the two female scientists mentioned above. Supplemented with my discontent, I was compelled to carry out the requirements required to achieve points on this extra-credit assignment to offset the extremely poor score I received on an assignment, which I had completed but had failed to turn in on the date that said assignment was due after the day that the extra-credit assignment was offered. My parents simultaneously discovered the fact that I had failed to turn in the previously mentioned assignment, therefore, compelling me to do the extra-credit and had a very difficult time starting the third page of this assignment. The necessity for assistance arose and a male individual who possesses the relative title of older sibling alleviated some of the burden of writing this conclusion.


EDIT: It's five sentences long, 374 words. He was going to take it to his teacher to see if he should redo the page (he did add another paragraph that completed the page) before turning it it, but it was due that day so he just turned it in.

I really want to see the teacher's reaction to this

Miss Lockheart
09-24-2008, 09:07 AM
My God!!!!! *curses with Grammar Nazi curses*

The content is fine but where's the punctuation!!!?!?!?! =OO

Misuzu
09-28-2008, 01:20 AM
Lawlz ^___^

Chaser's Apprentice
09-28-2008, 01:27 AM
Run on sentences are not good because there's no ending punctuation or anything and that's bad because the readers will not understand anything and everything looks really rushed and stuff so maybe you should add punctuation like Sam and Angel Misuzu have already highlighted the content is nice however and this may be just me but I wouldn't ever start a paper with "Because I had to write this paper..." or something like you just did when you mentioned your extra credit paper.

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