You can make a point without being a condescending jerk about it, which you did not IMO. Other folks made your point to the OP WITHOUT doing so.
One would hope that when one talks about something that closely relates to their professional life that one would be at least somewhat professional about it. I see that on the dope all the time. So and so is rude and crude or silly here and there and everywhere, but when a thread comes up that relates to something they really know about or work with, they usually drop that carefree attitude and actually try to be helpful and informative and polite about it. Other folks, not so much.
As for the OP’s initial report…well, any instructor thats pushing their own poetry certainly make me go :rolleyes:
I still await a review of these custom written “books” for the course with baited breath.
That’s silly. I surely don’t know more about his situation than does he. I’ve said as much, but you seem hellbent on reading whatever you want and ignoring all the rest.
So, I’ll just refer you to my earlier posts which address the very point you raise. I’ll just say that I’m quite happy your limited, narrow-minded view of reality doesn’t dictate it for most people. Were that the case, then people would have divorce themselves from their personal views because they happen to work in a particular field. It’s silly.
Consider that op now says ratemyprofessor.com has both positive reviews and negative, but he earlier says that this is the information on it: “And if the student reviews at ratemyprofessors.com are to be believed, he expects them to be positive ones if you want a good grade.” Of course, it’s true that is there (I presume), but it’s completely dishonest because it doesn’t paint a true picture of the critiques there. It’s like quote mining.
Well, my responses are going to be tangentally related to the OP at best, but I think they are relevant.
I had one teacher push a book that she wrote. But the thing is, it was the best on Photoshop I’ve ever read. Most other books aren’t any better than the tutorials you can find online. This is the first time a book taught me more about an application than just fiddling around with it. (Note that it isn’t self-published, though; it’s by a well-known company. She just happens to be one of the authors.)
On the other hand, my school is the type to try and make you buy books from the bookstore. They require you to have the latest versions of books that are just fine in their earlier editions. And they keep your federal grant/scholarship money long enough that there is no way you can wait and get the books online. (It’s a month longer than I or my friends had to wait at any four-year colleges, at least.)
Still, I can’t bust on them too much, as it’s a really great deal. They actually have a CIS major that federal grants will pay for, and they are good enough to pass the appropriate third-party certifications. And I pay less than $1000 tuition+books.
Err… what? How I read that is that there are critiques on ratemyprofessors.com which are both positive and negative. There are also critiques (probably the negative ones) which say that the professor expects the essays about his books to be postitive or you will not get a good grade. I’m not seeing the dishonesty here…?
Ah, I see. You realize that you can’t defend your position because you were wrong and misunderstood what you’d read, but you’d rather die than admit you made a mistake, so you’ll pass it off as my mistake and hope nobody notices. Gotcha. You young’uns and your silly games!
Correct. I don’t think it should matter anyway what the other students think - I was just pointing out that some seem to love him while others hate him. And so far, personally, I’m not a fan.
I feel your pain Rigamarole, I had a professor for English that spent half of the semester discussing her sister-in-law Cookie and the other have pouring over the esteemed tome “In Country.” Not only did we read it on our own, we read it in class, we wrote essays about it and even watched the movie…twice.
Lord, when she leaned over her podium, we knew the Cookie-tales would begin.
It was a regular session class. As a summer course, I might have survived with less twitching.
Right. By pointing out your fallacy of logic, it clearly follows that I’d rather die than defend myself against your fallacious argument. One would think that pointing out your false logic would be a good case to rebut it.
Perhaps when you present an argument that actually makes sense and isn’t fatally flawed by extremely poor reasoning, I’ll make a greater effort to respond. In the interim, pointing out the bad logic is sufficient.
Your argument from incredulity does not a point make. I could argue against a valid point which is made; however, since you’ve failed to make one, I see no reason why the onus is on me to respond in any fashion other than, essentially, you must do better.
Because you are the one who said that the OP was dishonest. I pointed out that his statements did not contradict each other. You made the accusation, you get to back it up.
No, you said that you don’t see it. That isn’t the same as saying it isn’t there, only that you’re insufficiently positioned to take notice of it. From that, your implication is that since you can’t see it, it must not exist, which is claptrap.
Rigamarole, I’m sorry that this idiot has you read his own poetry. My earlier statements about profs assigning their own books clearly do not apply in this case. Would you be willing to PM me the book titles for my own curiosity?
Well, you can either choose to BE somewhat professional when discussing something related to your profession, or you can post stuff like you originally did that was rather unpolite and unprofessional (and not particularly insightful either).
Sure, you have the RIGHT to do either, but don’t get bent out of shape when folks call you on it either.
