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A Boring Dystopia
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The paper was very poorly written. It has no structure, no argument, it's short, and the author just writes the same 5 sentences over and over while changing a few words. That writing level does not correspond to a university student, and I would have gotten a 0 for it in 6th grade, regardless of the citations.
What’s sad is that you’re not wrong, but the quality of university writing has degraded so much that just writing something mostly coherent is fairly good. It’s in some ways a breath of fresh air from the monotonous tone of LLMs that we get for every assignment.
Also, I think it’s just a short article reflection and not a paper. The rubric made it seem like it was a short assignment.
Being short isn't a problem in and of itself, given the assignment, it just makes it more embarrassing how frequently it repeats itself. It's one thing to have to repeat the same point to pad out a 20-page paper, but not being able to think of anything else to say for 650 words?