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Words that Students Don't Know

Started by Aster, January 31, 2020, 08:29:29 AM

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poiuy

Quote from: treeoflife on April 19, 2024, 12:55:36 PMMy second year student did not know what peer reviewed is.
Undergraduate student, not graduate student, I hope.

poiuy




Many of my students mix up 'in lieu of' and 'in view of', using them interchangeably

Larimar

Documentation.

I am not kidding.

And the student who yesterday didn't know the word was one of the bright ones. 

Sigh. At least she knows it now. I hope.

Hibush

Quote from: apl68 on April 18, 2024, 10:02:59 AM
Quote from: fishbrains on April 18, 2024, 08:35:25 AMStudents don't know that the words "delve," "tapestry," and/or "whilst" in an essay send professors straight to the AI-generation detector.

While that's understandable, it does seem sad for those students who read a lot and have unusually rich vocabularies.  Although you may teach somewhere that doesn't have any such students.

Do you perhaps mean "Whilst that's understandable, it does seem sad for students who delve into literature and develop a linguistic tapestry."

apl68

Quote from: Hibush on April 19, 2024, 06:00:48 PM
Quote from: apl68 on April 18, 2024, 10:02:59 AM
Quote from: fishbrains on April 18, 2024, 08:35:25 AMStudents don't know that the words "delve," "tapestry," and/or "whilst" in an essay send professors straight to the AI-generation detector.

While that's understandable, it does seem sad for those students who read a lot and have unusually rich vocabularies.  Although you may teach somewhere that doesn't have any such students.

Do you perhaps mean "Whilst that's understandable, it does seem sad for students who delve into literature and develop a linguistic tapestry."

No, students doing that just sounds more amusing/annoying than sad.
For our light affliction, which is only for a moment, works for us a far greater and eternal weight of glory.  We look not at the things we can see, but at those we can't.  For the things we can see are temporary, but those we can't see are eternal.