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It sounds like Pollard was trying to emulate his writing professors (forgetting he is supposed to be a businessman now). I've met people like that. Trying to te
by mythrwy 10y ago
It sounds like Pollard was trying to emulate his writing professors (forgetting he is supposed to be a businessman now). I've met people like that. Trying to teach "life lessons" (in which they don't succeed) instead of sticking to the prime objective.
And Pollard's writing professors sound like blowhards who don't have much else going on in life but pompous critiques. Pretty much like a number of university soft science professors.
Throw an immature bratty job seeker in the mix and wait for the fireworks!
- Hydraulix989 10y agoAs a Cornell alum, I can confirm the accuracy of your assessment. The nice thing about math and engineering is that it's objective; you either solved it correctly, or you didn't. My liberal arts requirements and freshman writing seminars, not so much.
- ams6110 10y agoMy high school English teacher regularly "ripped to shreds" papers like that in the early 1980s. It was very difficult to write to his satisfaction. But he was a great teacher.
- tracker1 10y agoThen again... the applicant could have taken the criticism, adjust, and resubmit, thanking them for the prior critique. I see a LOT of very simple mistakes in articles today, published in print or online. It constantly makes me question as to what happened to actual editors and those that proof content.
- sosborn 10y agoEditors cost money.