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Old 05-05-2007, 03:49 AM
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Default Professor gives rude comments on paper, my response?

I wrote a very shoddy paper and emailed it to my professor yesterday. It's not like I can't write good papers, but I was under the impression that the write-up was not the important part of the project. Clearly I was wrong. I got it back with some of the following comments:

In the he email he wrote that I would have to do more for a passing grade. Fine, whatever, I take no offense. In the attached document he left the following comments:

"Did you read what you wrote?" (in response to a left out word)
"All of what? in Africa? Las Vegas??" (in reponse to me saying he pooled all the census data (he used U.S. census but i didn't say that explicitly)
"CAN YOU READ?? DO YOU WANT TO FLY WITH A PILOT WHO LEAVES THINGS OUT?" (in response to a left out word 'to')

I rewrote it and will send it back to him shortly (fortunately I turned it in early) but now that that's over:
what's my response? Once the semester is over I figure I have four options.

1) Ignore it
2) Write him a calmly worded email explaining how nonconstructive his criticism was.
3) Write the email and CC it to the department chair
4) Send the letter directly to the department chair
5) Have sex with his wife.


I'm not sure if it matter but he is truly a terrible teacher. He's disorganized, long winded and obtuse. He never rarely gives feedback and never gives clear instructions. Perfect example is my partner (who's a much more diligent student than me) had the same thought on the importance of the write-up and signed off on the crappy version without hesitation.
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