• "The sure mark of an A paper is that you will find yourself telling someone else about it." -- Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning

  
  

• "...an A+ is a touchdown that got the crowd to its feet -- a forty-yard pass play or a seventy-yard run from scrimmage. As color commentators like to put it, so and so 'took it to the house.'" -- Sanford Pinsker, Irascible Professor

  
  

• "An A paper is written with verve and clarity. It displays a curiosity, a control of knowledge beyond what was covered in class, an original insight or an extrapolation beyond class work." -- John Lye, Brock Univeristy CPCF Handbook

  
  

• "An "A" essay is excellent work that a student should be proud of." -- Elvira Casal, MTSU

  
  

• "All it takes is a well written introduction, body and conclusion. These steps are a lot easier than most people make them out to be." -- "How to Write an A Essay" reproduced at the following plagiarism sites: NetEssays.com, MegaEssays.com, RadEssays.com, VirtualEssays.com, NeedFreeEssays.com, FindFreeEssays.com, etc.

  
  

"...the fixation on grades so prevalent in our times might have to do with a paradigm shift. Perhaps the ideal of the sage or expert instructing the receptive student/apprentice has been replaced subtly by a new model: the paid coach and his/her trainees. In the latter relationship, the older coach is hired to make sure that the younger competitor brings home "the medals." By analogy, it becomes the job of the professor to make sure that the students bring home the "A's" -- Ronda Chervin, Idol worship of the 'A'

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