Maybe you should read the essay. It truly is godawful.
The assignment was to read an article called “Relations among gender typicality, peer relations, and mental health during early adolescence” and write a reaction paper.
Her essay does not engage with the article at all (you wonder if she even read it), does not cite any sources, doesn’t show any analytical aptitude and reads like something a middle schooler would write.
Her professor may be biased, but you definitely don’t need to be to fail her.
Link? Because you seem to be citing what another student claimed about the paper.
Also, she failed her with a zero where a 65 was passing, thus making it impossible for her to achieve a passing grade no matter how perfect the rest of her coursework was. Nobody gets a zero on a completed college essay. She could’ve had the intelligibility of 70s stoner rock lyrics and gotten a 50.
Maybe you could post a copy of it as I can’t seem to find it.
Thank the Lord somebody else has read the essay. You are 100% correct. From what my daughter told me even students and graduates of Christian colleges have been critical of the essay. She reads Twitter AKA X and I don’t so she sees more kerfuffle on this.
Agreed. Earlier articles shared only a few lines from the essay. Even then, I got the impression the rest of the essay was probably poor.
Now, thanks to your link in post #23, I can see the whole essay really did deserve a low grade. Maybe not a zero, but D- or F.
Someone posted the entire criteria for the reaction paper here: https://x.com/Fibby1123/status/1994945900456939984/photo/1
IMHO, based on the professor’s criteria, the essay should have been given (at most) 13 points out of 25:
1. Is there a clear link back to the assigned article? NO. (0 points)
2. Does the paper provide a reaction... rather than a summary? YES. It’s definitely a reaction. (10 points)
3. Are the main ideas and thoughts organized into a coherent discussion? NOT REALLY... It reads more like a blog post, but I’ll be generous. (3 points)
It’s still an F.
With that said, I wonder how well (or poorly) the other students’ essays are written.