From a student’s essay:
A typical grandmother never brings stress to the life of a family, only love and patience.
What does one need to do to make them stop offering these inane generalizations in the midst of essays?
A Typical Generalization About a Typical Grandmother
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Look at the bright side: probably from the generalizations you can sometimes explicitly see US hidden cultural assumptions. Or rather, the assumptions of students’ cultural backgrounds.
And surprises are nice sometimes. After posts about terrorism, I felt happier reading about the loving and patient grandmother. 🙂
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OK, OK, point well taken. 🙂 I will try to lighten up.
It’s the last week of the semester, hence the gloom.
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S/he should have written “A stereotypical grandmother…”
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That would make sense. 🙂
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As a natural born smartass, I would have to fight off the urge to scrawl: “A typical student never brings insight to an assignment, only cliches and banality”
I wouldn’t actually write it (or say it to the student in question) but it would pass thru my mind a few (dozen) times…..
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Yes, I had a very similar impulse. 🙂 🙂
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