Cutting and pasting long tracts from The Bible does not necessarily answer the question.
2007-02-06 01:50:38 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You should never cut and paste to answer any exam question - this is called plagiarism and will possibly get you disqualified from the exam.
R&S questions are no different to any other. The exam questions invite you to demonstrate your own knowledge and understanding of the subject. In order to answer you will probably have to quote passages from the Bible to illustrate the points you make but that is not the same as simply placing an entire section of the Bible in your answer and, in effect, telling the examiner that somewhere in there is the answer.
As an example, if you were asked to describe a miracle performed by Jesus, the examiner does not want you to enter a word-for-word extract from the Bible describing, lets say, the loaves and fishes. Instead he will expect you to say that in such and such a Gospel this miracle is decribed and then for you to go on to give an account in your own words. In this way you will demonstrate to the examiner that you actually know and understand the subject, which is of course the whole point of the examination.
R&S is much more than simply knowing the Bible from cover to cover, you must be able to understand and critically interpret the Bible and perhaps also give account of or analyse other people's interpretations.
On Y!A many people seem to think that cutting and pasting great chunks of the Bible into an answer somehow substitutes for understanding. What cutting and pasting does is simply demonstrate to the reader or examiner that the answerer is just blindly writing words without any real knowledge or understanding of the subject.
2007-02-06 01:53:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Most do poorly, both theists and atheists. Primary errors include:
-- Failure to read the ENTIRE question.
As it happens, many people have used misleading questions or specifically worded questions to entice users to click through, but then change the actual question in the optional details. It also happens that the question is still valid, but the asker wants one very specific aspect of the question answered.
-- Failure to accept the hypothetical.
This is the BIG one. If someone says, "Assume there is a deity," and one's answer is that there is not a deity (or vice versa), one has not answered the question.
-- Failure to paraphrase and summarize long answers.
Y!A is not a place for essays. Some questions have no choice but to have long answers, but brevity and conciseness is key. Long quotes should be summarized and links provided to other sources for the full versions. Every sentence should be written then looked at to see if it can be shortened.
-- Failure to recognize trolls and humor
Let's face it, talking about whether a beaver's deity is just another dam god who literally WILL dam it upon request is mildly funny. A question that inquires about the various deities orientations or proclivaties are usually macabre humor or trolls. Both should be responded to appropriately, either by sharing the humor or ignoring the troll.
2007-02-06 10:04:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Answering the question that is asked, is an important skill in life! However complicated questions require depth and understanding not necessarily possessed by the person asking. Good communication skills is the key and that involves an interative process with three components - the sender, the message and the receiver.
2007-02-06 10:00:28 · answer #3 · answered by Tom Cat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who think the bible is the ultimate answer to everything - believe that pasting pieces of the bible is great. Personally - most of the time when I ask questions in R&S - I ask people NOT to quote the bible - because that's not what I'm looking for. The bible is and always has been available to me. What's in the heads of others is not availble to me - and that's what Answers! is all about.... Making other people's thoughts available to me!
2007-02-06 09:56:18 · answer #4 · answered by liddabet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guarantee if you measured the IQ of the atheist answerers and compared it the the average IQ of the fundamentalists on here there would be a big difference.
I don't think fundamentalists are really capable of rational thought. No intelligent person believes in creationism or a literal interpretation of the bible.
2007-02-06 09:58:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
On the whole, they're pretty sad. If the question is more than a few words long, they tend to skip the important points, and they tend to read way more into them than is actually there.
The fault partially lies in the querent - so many times important details are omitted which makes it very easy to misconstrue.
2007-02-06 09:55:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is not an English test. It isn't even a theology test. The one who asks the question can sort as He will, (and so can everyone else) We can't all be Einstein, most of us do the best we can to spread truth as we understand it. What is the problem?
2007-02-06 10:00:58 · answer #7 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most don't. Answers need to be structured in such a way as to bullsh!t the examiner that you know what you're talking about.
2007-02-06 09:55:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always read the person's question and try to give an informed and well contructed answer.
2007-02-06 09:53:27 · answer #9 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the measure up dandily on the diversification scale
2007-02-06 09:58:21 · answer #10 · answered by foulweathercatcherman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋