<p>My English professor told the class to read, and write a one page summary of “The More Factor”, by Laurence Shames. She told us to Google it, and we should find it. However, I can’t find it. When I Google it, all that comes up are essays ABOUT “The More Factor”, but not “The More Factor” itself.</p>
<p>This sucks.</p>
<p>Can someone please find it for me?</p>
<p>It was published in “Signs of Life in the U.S.A.: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers,” edited by Maasik and Solomon. Barnes & Noble says it was definitely in the 6th edition (from 2008), and it may or may not have been in any of the others.</p>
<p>If it was also posted online, I’m excluding the links when I try to get Google to ignore the many online essays about it.</p>
<p>If I were you, I’d try looking in the campus library.</p>
<p>Thanks, but I already sent my professor, this email:</p>
<p>*Dear Professor *****,</p>
<p>I’m writing to you because I cannot find “The More Factor” by Laurence Shames. Thus I cannot do this week’s homework assignment. All of my attempts to find “The More Factor”, have failed. Every Google search I have done, has only led me to other college essays ABOUT “The More Factor”, as opposed to “The More Factor” itself. Perhaps, I am doing something wrong, I don’t know. But as it stands, I cannot complete this assignment.</p>
<p>If you happen to have a link to a site that contains “The More Factor”, and are willing to give it to me, I would greatly appreciate it.</p>
<p>Sincerely,
<em>my name</em>
ENG<em>1031</em>06*</p>
<p>The book (Signs of Life in the US) is available thru amazon for <$8.00 Better to get that then to tell your prof you couldn’t find it online. This isn’t HS! Your library probably has it too.</p>
<p>I found this post and your yahoo answers post, but I also failed. Your professor should have provided you with a link.</p>
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<p>She assigned it 48 hours before it was due. There’s no way I could have ordered it on Amazon, and got it on time.</p>
<p>Jon,
I have a feeling that your professor is not going to be favorably impressed by your email, by your work ethic, or by your research skills. I assume that you are on a college campus, and that your campus has a library? and that your library has librarians and research aides? Had you gone to the library, and used the resources (human and otherwise) available to you there, you would have both acquired the piece you needed to read, and also learned higher level research skills.</p>
<p>Check your school library’s website, see if they have a database or e-books on it. Or physically go to the library if you can before the assignment is due.</p>
<p>She said “You guys should find it on Google”. Besides, I’m not the only person who couldn’t find it. I just check the school’s facebook page, and there are a bunch of people asking “Where do I find The More Factor, by Laurence Shames?”, and “I can’t find The More Factor, by Laurence Shames.”</p>
<p>Is the library on campus honestly so far away from you that you can’t just walk there? Perhaps she was referring to finding more information on Google. Even if she was convinced there was a copy online when there isn’t, I highly doubt she’ll accept the excuse of, “I couldn’t find it on an SEO-driven popular website, so I decided to complain instead of hike my butt to the library or look at a different search engine.”</p>
<p>Trust me there will be many classmates that “found” it. It is your responsibility to find and read all assignments that the professor expects you to know. There is no such thing as I could’nt find it…good luck. Back in my day we did’nt even have a computer to make life easy and we spent hours going through microfiche for abscure reading materials that professors expected us to know. Take a walk to the library and if they don’t have it get to another library that does. In college there are no excuses.</p>
<p>Jerzey Jon, we Jersey people are supposed to be smart enough to find the library. </p>
<p>Back in the Dark Ages before Google, we old people used to actually walk there, and ask the librarian for help finding things. Then we thumbed through thousands of bitty index cards in drawers, because her idea of “help” was to hand you the correct drawer — or two or three of them (after that, we milked the cows).</p>
<p>Don’t ever send your profs whiny & smartass sounding emails. Kean is supposed to have students that are smart enough not to do that!</p>
<p>Momma three is right–there are people in your class who already found the reading and have read it and that isn’t all; they are keeping this knowledge to themselves. </p>
<p>I Googled it & I found a lot of essays students have posted on the reading. Maybe she is testing you to see how many students try to cheat & use these essays off the Net as their own. Don’t ever think that profs don’t know about these sites and can’t tell you have used them. </p>
<p>Is it possible she handed out a syllabus that said things like which readings she has placed on “3 hr borrowing,” in the library, or other ways she has made it available, and you have not perused the syllabus? </p>
<p>Now that you have sent her a dumb email, your only recourse is to to go the librarian and see if s/he can help you. The next time, make a nice polite email to the prof, saying you are having trouble finding the reading via Google use, telling what you have been finding (as you did, but you left out the nicely part), and asking for help finding it. Which you did do, but with loads of snark. Good luck on the rest of the year!</p>
<p>Gotta say, the best part of the email to his English professor was how many typos were in it.</p>
<p>OP,
Did the professor ever respond to you? Did you ever find the selection and do your assignment?</p>
<p>I went to class today, and only 2 out of the 35 people in the class found it. Everybody else either didn’t find it and didn’t do the assignment, or didn’t find it and just plagiarized off one of the many essays found on Google.</p>
<p>None of this matters however, because the professor didn’t even show up to class.</p>
<p>^ Well, at least you have the weekend to work on it. Did you ask one of those two classmates where they got it from?</p>
<p>Jerzey lol we are in the same class 1031/1032? i think
She just gave us the article today in class. One kid found it online and another girl checked out the ONLY book that they had. </p>
<p>Difabio is a fail teacher…</p>