Heehee! Totally! I'm always amazed at how students toss out wholly unsupported claims, sometimes even vastly generalized ones, with not a thing to support them. I don't think they are that arrogant, I think it's that they are taught to write essays by starting with a general and moving to a specific. But egads! some of the generalities they try to start with!
And yes, they are stunned when college requires work. I suspect this is, in part, a result of NCLB. This class is one of the first that's been schooled under No Child Left Behind from K-12, and I can tell you from the final product, that program is worthless!
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And yes, they are stunned when college requires work. I suspect this is, in part, a result of NCLB. This class is one of the first that's been schooled under No Child Left Behind from K-12, and I can tell you from the final product, that program is worthless!