In my second year uni course, I have an outline for writing lab reports that says ‘include in your discussion anything you feel is out of place, or that you don’t understand in this experiment. You will not be marked down for such admissions’.
And I thought ‘NO-ONE is going to take you up on that.’. I hate having to bullshit science papers—I tend to compromise, with a hashed together explanation that I express doubt in, and take the marks hit. Bullshitting is great fun in English courses, but in science it feels like shooting myself in the foot.
In my second year uni course, I have an outline for writing lab reports that says ‘include in your discussion anything you feel is out of place, or that you don’t understand in this experiment. You will not be marked down for such admissions’. And I thought ‘NO-ONE is going to take you up on that.’. I hate having to bullshit science papers—I tend to compromise, with a hashed together explanation that I express doubt in, and take the marks hit. Bullshitting is great fun in English courses, but in science it feels like shooting myself in the foot.