| I think we're talking apples and oranges here. I was speaking about the assignment itself, not the writing therein. Sure, you can throw out about 80 pages of War and Peace where he just blabs about soviet farming practices. I'm not an MBA guy, so I can't speak to the curriculum in Biz Schools, but I can say that what you say does come across with most MBAs I have met. In that they think similarly about their education being about the networking and not really about the material. Which is a shame really for both of our sides of this all. I think you are saying that the publishers are essentially paying for minimum words / word count. Which is the opposite of what any writing upperdivision teacher would tell you about writing. And I'm saying that you are getting busy work assigned from the professor in the first place (and then saying that i haven't experienced that). The solution is to have the students take charge of their education and be less passive. If the assignments are bad (in selection or in writing) then the student should challenge the teacher on it. Yeah, that's a harder way to do things, yes, but I think anyone out of school for anytime will agree that it would be a better way. Thank you for sharing you experience with me all the same. |