I was hoping you'd chip in w/ your linguistics viewpoint.
1) I plan to do this in the future.
2) The problem is that I want to tease out that the students know the difference between the origins and fates of the Universe and the Earth, in an assignment with only 2 questions. I guess I could entirely rework the questions to something like "compare and contrast how the Earth and how the Universe will end," but IMO that is a meaningless question as the two don't really have anything in common.
Do you think if I just did "1. How will the planet Earth end? 2. How will the universe end?" that would be sufficient? Another option is to add in or substitute "how will life on Earth end?" - some of my readers here already interpreted the question that way.
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Date: 2009-05-11 01:54 pm (UTC)1) I plan to do this in the future.
2) The problem is that I want to tease out that the students know the difference between the origins and fates of the Universe and the Earth, in an assignment with only 2 questions. I guess I could entirely rework the questions to something like "compare and contrast how the Earth and how the Universe will end," but IMO that is a meaningless question as the two don't really have anything in common.
Do you think if I just did "1. How will the planet Earth end? 2. How will the universe end?" that would be sufficient? Another option is to add in or substitute "how will life on Earth end?" - some of my readers here already interpreted the question that way.