I always thought writing essays was the stupidest part of any class because it's entirely up to the teacher's viewpoint on whether the essay was good or not. I finally had a prof in college that REQUIRED us to have a meeting with him with our first draft in hand so that he could critique them before actually turning them in for grading, and suddenly it became so much easier to get good grades on essays.

[–] xpinchx@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

I feel like essays are where teachers bump up the kids that don't do well but still try

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

Looks at Rubric...

2 quotes per paragraph.

Quality pre-quote sentences

At least 3 paragraphs

No more than half a page

Due date was yesterday

Collegiate level critical thinking

Perfect grammar according to this specific teacher's ideas

Must use MLA citation method from 1965. Automatic fail if you use the modern version.

I'm just going to be over here looking at the gas station jobs.

[–] roadsidewildflower@midwest.social 21 points 4 months ago

damn I wish I still taught middle school ELA just so that I could pop out this bad boy and make all my students cringe smh

[–] Theme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 4 months ago

Shadow should kiss Sonic with his mouth. In this essay I will...

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm fucked because I have no idea what a rubrick is

[–] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 51 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's a 3x3x3 cube that teachers give to students to stop them fidgeting in class

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

No, that's a Rubik's. A rubric is a river that traditionally marked the northern border of Italy.

[–] laffytaffer@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No that's the Rubicon. Rubric is the guy who directed The Shining

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No no that's Kubrick. Ruberic is when you have a petty argument with someone.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago

The ol' Lemmy Switcheroo!

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For those of us who need to do research to get this joke, I already did it. They mean Rubicon River (which is no longer in the north, so don't look for it there, it's on the opposite side of the knee).

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

For more context, the Rubicon is famous less among geographers and more among historians. Famously, the governor of a province was not allowed to bring an army south of the Rubicon into Italy, so when Julius Caesar marched south with his army, that is the point at which it was impossible for Rome not to go to civil war. The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" is an English-language idiom (I don't know if equivalents exist in other languages, though I wouldn't be surprised if it's common across countries formerly in the Roman Empire) meaning "passing a point of no return".

[–] Jeom@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

its basically a set of rules the teacher uses to grade students, so just follow the rubric and you'll get good marks

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Bold of you to assume they won't mark me down based on information they never provided because it was "expected knowledge"

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What if Ric doesn't want to be rubbed?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Ric always wants it.