I’m grading papers… again. This is a compilation of things I wanted to write on them.

The assignment asked you to find a severe weather event for an area, give a brief overview of the climatology of severe weather in the area, and then describe a single extraordinary event and how it impacted the community. [ed. - the actual assignment was more detailed, but I've outlied the important points] You gave no climatology at all, that was an important part of the assignment. It was unfortunate for you that the brief severe weather overview was worth a substantial percentage of the grade. I appreciated you skipping that because it kept me from reading another paragraph of your intensely poor grammar [ed. - which the assignment specified would be graded]. Your understanding of meteorology, even being in an introductory weather and climate class, is at a fifth grade level. You do not understand the difference between a warm and cold front, a high pressure system and low pressure system, nor even a topic as simple as east and west. Your examination of the event - that you chose - was taken almost directly from one website, albeit a good one, though that was probably just luck. In your almost direct copying, you did manage to use the thesaurus on a few of the longer words - hopefully by using Microsoft Word and choosing the first word it suggested - and to change the sentence structure when it suited you. Though you did cite your reference [ed. - yes, just one]. The organizational structure of your paper, as with many other aspects, mirrors your source. However, in your putrid attempt to summarize the meteorological condition which led to the event you chose, you failed; perhaps due to above said lack of understanding of things a college student should know, like the difference between east and west. Overall, if a first grader had written this, it would have received two gold stars. However, since basic literacy should be a prerequisite for graduation from high school - something I am presupposing you did, even though your performance on this assignment leads me to believe otherwise - and graduation from high school [or a G.E.D.] is a prerequisite for college, you will be failing this assignment. This will dramatically lower you grade since you seem to have done well on the previous exams and homework assignments - which obviously did not accurately judge the expertise of the students. I hope you actually pass this class so I don’t have to read your papers next semester.

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