Sunday, September 16, 2007

First Draft of Paper Inadvertently Becomes Final Draft

The title of this article is pretty self-explanatory. The article is about a student that didn’t bother writing a final draft and just turned in her first draft as her final. She claims she was “gonna add a bunch of stuff . . . but then was like, fuck it.” The article is obviously an “Onion” piece because of the falsely dramatic style. The article makes it sound like turning a first draft into a final draft is big news, a front-page story, when in reality it is an ordinary occurrence for most students, at least the students I know. The article is making big news out of an ordinary occurrence.

The author is trying to get across that college student don’t have much drive when it comes to schoolwork. The student in the article is perfectly fine with turning in her first draft; she is very nonchalant about the whole thing. The article says she ended up watching Friends instead. The article is addressing college students’ work ethic and how they don’t have their priorities in order. They put play ahead of work, and everyone finds that perfectly acceptable.

The article is very short, only three sentences. I think this format echoes the theme of the article, that being people don’t work hard enough to make their papers complete and include all the facts. They just do the minimum requirement, or even less. If they can get away with it, they will do it, no questions asked. Today’s students tend to have a problem with work ethic, and this article addresses that.

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