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<blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 4860604" data-attributes="member: 7394"><p>First to answer the question - I've mixed and matched rules from one edition to another since I was first introduced to D&D. At first I literally didn't know any better, but later on it was just a matter of thinking that one book might handle something better than the system native to the ruleset I was playing. Or, maybe there was no ruleset at all and I just needed some rules to cover it.</p><p></p><p>Now to Jack7, I think you write with a distinctive voice. There is merit in the critique that sometimes hard to get through a wall of text, so it would help to break it up into smaller bite sized chunks, if nothing else. On the other hand, I don't agree with the notion that the thesis needs to appear in the opening lines of an essay. In fact, as someone who is back in school finishing my degree right now, and has finished the English - Professional Writing major, the one misconception that many <em>academics</em> have (not to mention lay-people) is that the thesis statement must appear at the front. It doesn't. If the essay is well structured, you can put it at the very end if you'd like.</p><p></p><p>I've run up against this a couple times and it's irritating. I turned in a History paper, which was graded by a History department TA and I was given a crappy grade (incidentally, so did half the class, which is why the prof made everyone resubmit and then he graded them himself. Amazing how quickly my paper suddenly became an A paper, but I digress). One of the critiques was that my thesis statement didn't appear until the second paragraph. I thought that was an interesting reason to shoot mark me down a full ten percent, so I printed the paper, out and took it to my Professional Writing Professor/advisor and asked him to look it over and give me an honest appraisal since he not only is an acknowledged expert on writing and has direct and personal experience with the subject I was writing on. I'm not going to claim that he gave it a perfect score, but he did say it was quite good. Then I showed him the graded version and he laughed until his eyes watered. Then he shook his head and said something about the History department and asked me if I wanted him to make a call to the department head. I declined the offer because I chose to fight my own battle, and I got an A not only on that paper, but in that class. This does, however, underscore the point that often times someone who is advanced in their art is graded down by people who are in fact less educated. Most of the rules they teach you in English 101 can and should be broken in certain circumstances; the obvious exception being the importance of citation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Darrin Drader, post: 4860604, member: 7394"] First to answer the question - I've mixed and matched rules from one edition to another since I was first introduced to D&D. At first I literally didn't know any better, but later on it was just a matter of thinking that one book might handle something better than the system native to the ruleset I was playing. Or, maybe there was no ruleset at all and I just needed some rules to cover it. Now to Jack7, I think you write with a distinctive voice. There is merit in the critique that sometimes hard to get through a wall of text, so it would help to break it up into smaller bite sized chunks, if nothing else. On the other hand, I don't agree with the notion that the thesis needs to appear in the opening lines of an essay. In fact, as someone who is back in school finishing my degree right now, and has finished the English - Professional Writing major, the one misconception that many [I]academics[/I] have (not to mention lay-people) is that the thesis statement must appear at the front. It doesn't. If the essay is well structured, you can put it at the very end if you'd like. I've run up against this a couple times and it's irritating. I turned in a History paper, which was graded by a History department TA and I was given a crappy grade (incidentally, so did half the class, which is why the prof made everyone resubmit and then he graded them himself. Amazing how quickly my paper suddenly became an A paper, but I digress). One of the critiques was that my thesis statement didn't appear until the second paragraph. I thought that was an interesting reason to shoot mark me down a full ten percent, so I printed the paper, out and took it to my Professional Writing Professor/advisor and asked him to look it over and give me an honest appraisal since he not only is an acknowledged expert on writing and has direct and personal experience with the subject I was writing on. I'm not going to claim that he gave it a perfect score, but he did say it was quite good. Then I showed him the graded version and he laughed until his eyes watered. Then he shook his head and said something about the History department and asked me if I wanted him to make a call to the department head. I declined the offer because I chose to fight my own battle, and I got an A not only on that paper, but in that class. This does, however, underscore the point that often times someone who is advanced in their art is graded down by people who are in fact less educated. Most of the rules they teach you in English 101 can and should be broken in certain circumstances; the obvious exception being the importance of citation. [/QUOTE]
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