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Showing Original Post only (View all)Who here has experience with computer writing programs [View all]
I am grading (. . . when am I not grading?) a paper on the War Powers Act. I don't think I have ever seen one like this. I have plenty that have all sorts of inaccuracies and bad writing. Sometimes it takes a second or even a third reading of a passage to understand what the mean. Some are so bad that I require they go to the writing center on campus.
But this paper is a collection of often unrelated words generally relating to the topic. It sounds as if it was written by a computer ... or by a committee
Examples:
Without a doubt, the perseverance has efficiently required confident presidents into connecting Congress afore obligating the military in voyages away and through the retro of actions.
The necessities of the steadfastness need to successfully have banded the premier after autonomous engagements in the use of the armed in conflicts is worried.
This successfully foresees the probability of the president interim singly in such a way.
This esteems if the help of the president are tense by this determination as in encumber his receptiveness to conditions that might request for the placement of the countrys fighting.
I'm confounded.
Help, please
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Those look like the result of using Babelfish to translate something in English through a series...
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#10
There are blog/spam programs that write nonsense like this. Looks like it.
democrat_patriot
Jul 2012
#15
The large vocabulary being used seems inconsistent with the lack of sense or grammar. nt
bemildred
Jul 2012
#16
I also ran it by my wife (College Professor - Theater History) and she's seen word salad....
Junkdrawer
Jul 2012
#25
I think the possibility of mental illness necessitates a call to the Dean....
Junkdrawer
Jul 2012
#42
I think you may have hit on something here. It would be worth looking into.......
wandy
Jul 2012
#33
Could be someone mentally ill. Or it could be written by someone who isn't a native English speaker.
Ian David
Jul 2012
#31
This confirms my theory that Sarah Palin's brain was replaced with a Markov chain generator! n/t
backscatter712
Jul 2012
#59