Research papers are supposed to contain library research, along with some analysis of the findings. One’s personal opinion of Vonnegut does not pertain, and certainly should not compose the bulk of the paper. Usually, when a paper does contain a lot of personal opinion, it indicates that the student didn’t do any research, and wrote the entire thing at the last minute.
Thanks, I just didn’t notice the assignment was characterized as a “research paper”.
Since this thread is full of Beowulf fans, does that make it a Beowulf cluster?
**Skald the Rhymer ** said:
I suppose there’s some justice in that. Her overall class grade dropped a letter grade. For high school, that’s significant.
So what did her mother make in the class? Or did she not get an independent grade? 
Given that I don’t know what a kenning is, I would have a hard time with that assignment.
Not if you can read. A kenning is a metaphorical compound word or phrase used in Old English & Old Norse poetry, often to keep the meter of a line correct. If you’re talking about the sea in a poem but the scansion of your line requires an extra syllable, you can say whale road instead.
Didn’t you play outfield for Bud Abbott’s team?
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I’m going to start calling the sea the “whale road” all the time now. Only I’m sure people will think I mean the “rail road” and look at me funny.
While attending Delaware I encountered a lovely man by the name of Mike Cotsell. I mention him by name because he deserves to be legend. He teaches / taught American Lit up to the Civil War and has one of those lovely English accents that is good for nothing but curing insomia.
He began his lecture on Scarlet Letter, only to quickly realise that not only was no one listening, but few students had bothered to read the book. The lecture began to take a turn for the strange, with him saying he would summarize the plot; It was, he said, an English novel of manners in which a housemaid is suspected of having fallen pregnant by the vicar. But everyone knows that vicars are impotent…
He continued for nearly ten minutes in that vein, most of the class scribbling furiously and oblivious to the fact he was making it up as he was going along.
High school? I failed an essay on Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in which we were support to interivew the main character and write the essay in the style of the author. I used stream of consciousness for man of Stephen D’s answers. Teacher’s reply was that she’d never been able to get through the book anyway and that made my essay baffling. F minus.