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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (51246)	6/17/2002 3:41:07 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Ah, now we're getting down to it. No asthetic judgments? Hmmm. So if the rubric for a piece of creative writing is limited to, say, such issues as correct grammar and spelling, sequential organization of ideas, and other such objective issues, a piece of writing by, say, Hemmingway and one by a high school student with no creative talent would both be given As if they met the technical standards? Makes it awfully hard, for example, to issue grades in art classes, music composition classes, and I think even creative writing. Do I read you correctly that, for example, the rubric can't contain such conditions as "show originality," since originality is subjective? How is a college instructor to grade papers on Hamlet -- is the quality of the argument to be acknowledged? Or just that there is correct grammar and syntax, that all points made are supported by correctly formatted footnotes to the text or to secondary sources, etc.?