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AndrewGradman-SecondPaper 42 - 06 Apr 2008 - Main.AndrewGradman
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> | READY FOR GRADING (but please continue to comment!!) | | | 1. Background on this paper
In my CLS admissions essay (relevant excerpts in bold) , I complained that my debate-team partners were not interested in inquiring WHY we could defend both sides of any argument. Instead, they worshiped winners "as though they had been visited by a muse," and mimicked their outward behaviors as though reproducing steps in a magic spell. I felt that our near-term disinterest in higher awareness was losing us tournaments in the long run. | | | You should be asking TWO questions: "How does one become relevant by upsetting people," and "why has Andrew upset people in [Q] instances?", where "Q" instances are relevant to this paper because [X]. | |
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< | Is this correct? Then you should first tell me [X], i.e., why is your question relevant to this paper? | >
> | If this is correct, then you should first tell me [X], i.e., why is your question relevant to this paper? | | | | |
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< | Everyone, please remember to email me after commenting. Otherwise you might get the last word before Eben grades my paper, and I don't see why you'd want that. | >
> | Also, please be considerate, and do what I did for you, as I requested at the top of this essay -- i.e. I emailed you after I replied to your comment, and explained why I did it. Please appreciate that this is my paper, and YOU ought to be helping ME get the last word before Eben grades it. Thanks. | | | -- AndrewGradman - 06 Apr 2008 | | | You can answer as many questions as you want  The how or why is an abstract question--I'm not asking you to justify your comments, I'm asking how or why one way to be relevant is to upset as many people as possible.
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> | Sigh. "How or why" doesn't make it an abstract question. A question is a question. Here's 36 million google hits. QED. Three strikes, you're out.
RE your email: Now that I've marked this essay as ready for grading -- and because I do expect Eben to grade me on the comments -- please don't ask this genre of question again without discussing it first by email. (Strange how you juxtaposed those two justifications, which ought to be pleaded in the alternative. I'm curious to know which you think least justifies frivolous posting, but not curious enough to ask -- I'd have to anticipate your reply, whereas I should be studying.)
-- AndrewGradman - 06 Apr 2008 | | | | |
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