Pryor's Resarch Paper on Research (MUST READ!)

Submitted by AKMuskie on
Terrelle Pryor Research is the most used resource to finding out something you need from school papers to things you want to buy. Research is also used to find cheaper shopping supplies. For instance one store may have had a pricey type of material one was looking for and the other store you researched was a couple dollars cheaper. Coming out of high school I was thinking to my self what I wanted to do for a living and what I wanted to major in to start the quest for my job. Research is also used to find shopping cheaper shopping supplies. I used the research process to find out what type of job specific major I wanted to major in and what type of job I wanted to do when I graduated from college. I researched different types of jobs, Criminal justice, business, communications, and education. I came up with criminal justice but couldn’t decide between business and criminal justice. I did research on business and did their pros and cons. Then, I did the pros and cons of criminal justice. I came up with in the business world you can either have a good chance at the type of business you want to start or a bad business that won’t sell or bring in money. Another part of my research I did was the most important factors in the business, was what they want for what they can afford and is there a profit that can help me out to make some extra money.The availability of the job openings, the job entails, the pay hours. I looked up also whether I would have to be in school for along time or not to get a job. Also my personal enjoyment in the job would I love to do every day I woke up to go to work. With out research I would not have been able to get these types of information for the job that I want to do for the rest of my life. If one would just go and do something with out researching first they could’ve missed something that could have later benefited later on or benefited one more then the other.
Apparently this was found by an OSU student after realizing that Pryor hadn't logged off! Here's the facebook group (currently at 2,432 members). I know he's an athlete, but c'mon, he's a COLLEGE STUDENT! If he had been at Michigan for 3 semesters, it might've been a different story. Yikes...

4godkingandwol…

December 10th, 2009 at 1:44 PM ^

... a dormmate of mine -- several years ago -- got a hold of a basketball players psych 101 paper. It was written at a 2nd grade level. The sad part was he got the same grade my colleague got. This person is no longer a fan of college athletics. On another note -- don't they have tutors to help with this stuff? How hard can it be to ask for guidance?

dmccoy

December 10th, 2009 at 12:36 PM ^

... as shitty as this paper is, its not that far from a lot of freshman papers I've read. I've proofread and corrected a lot of papers that are worse than this that were written by non-athletes.

Seth9

December 10th, 2009 at 12:42 PM ^

As a college freshman, I'm not sure whether I should take that as a comfort (as in, I'm a much better writer than a significant percentage of college freshman) or as a sign of the impending fall of western society.

DubbaEwwTeeEff

December 10th, 2009 at 1:16 PM ^

I've had to do peer editing and group writing quite a bit in my time here, and the terrible writers have outnumbered the decent ones without question. I don't know if it's a Michigan thing, or if it's because I'm a former AP English kid that happened to go into the Engineering College, but I cringe almost every time I have to read someone else's text. The good part, though, is that my half-assed night-before papers still somehow end up being above the standards for my tech writing courses. I'm finishing up my senior tech comm course this month, and I literally haven't spent more than one night on any of the assignments. (I'm getting an A.) My advice to you is to adjust your effort to the minimum to make your grade, and let someone else worry about the decline of Western civilization.

fatbastard

December 10th, 2009 at 1:23 PM ^

a remedial class. If not, USD may have the dumbest students I've ever heard of. Seriously, not even many students at community colleges would hand in such a thing here.

dmccoy

December 10th, 2009 at 1:42 PM ^

A school whose business students place in the top 5% nationally is full of idiots. Anything else you want to comment on? Make sure you focus on something of which you have no knowledge or understanding, that way you can stay consistent.

Clarence Beeks

December 10th, 2009 at 2:00 PM ^

I understand that, but responding to him by providing a ranking doesn't really rebut his point. Regardless of what their ranking is, if they have students who are writing papers like that, they have dumb students, or at the very least students who are lacking very basic skills.

dmccoy

December 10th, 2009 at 2:05 PM ^

So having some students who struggle to write effectively more substantially supports the idea that the school has "the dumbest students" than outscoring 95% of the nation on a comprehensive test? By scoring in the upper echelon of schools nationally, I make the claim that the school must not be full of idiots, thereby refuting fatbastard's claim to the contrary.

dmccoy

December 10th, 2009 at 2:24 PM ^

The ETS exam, which I refer to, is a widely accepted and used exam to gauge the success of a student's undergraduate learning, including schools like Penn, Stanford, and the University of Chicago. I don't know what else to tell you, a handful of students struggle to write effectively at every school, and Terrelle Pryor is one of them. Not the worst writer in the world, but definitely needs a LOT of tutoring.

fatbastard

December 10th, 2009 at 4:21 PM ^

i donut no muck abot USD or it's stoodints. I does tink, tough, dat ef yu got stoodints dat rite like dat, whu r naught taekin rumedeal klasses, den may be them r note two intelijent?

dmccoy

December 10th, 2009 at 4:28 PM ^

Because a small minority of students can't write effectively, the entire student body is unintelligent! I get it now! Thanks so much for your insight and for clearing that up for me. Clearly when the university outscores Ivy League schools on a regular basis on the EXACT same test its just a recurring fluke and not indicative of the student body's intelligence as a whole.

ertai

July 28th, 2010 at 5:04 PM ^

I tried to find some evidence of your claim that the University of South Dakota is good at business.

 

No-show on Businessweek (undergrad b-school):

http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/

Unranked on US News (grad b-school):

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools…

 

Considering that US News ranks down to like Tier 4 schools, this is a pretty bad sign indeed.

 

I think that you're referring to this wikipedia article, which contains the following quote:

For the 2006-07 academic year, the Beacom School of Business boasted graduating seniors who collectively scored in the top five percent in a national exit exam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_South_Dakota

Unfortunately though, just like football 40 times and the GRE, national exit exams don't correlate that highly with actual on-the-field performance.