The teacher had assigned the technique of ‘erasure’ as a means of creating a new text from an existing one. A lazy student picked Saroyan’s ‘lighght’ as his target text, and ended with ‘ghgh’ as his finished text. Of course he could be awarded nothing less than an A.
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A few years back I put up a blog post about this kind of academic vacuity: http://www.jhwriter.com/the-drivel-of-academe/
The image I created for the post is my final statement on these matters. Enjoy!
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