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WTF is "Chunk Form"?

sandorski

sandorski

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My Neice(14 year old) recently moved to the US from Canada and she gets the English teacher from Hell. So the teacher assigns the class a Report assignment stating that it needs to be written in "Chunk Form". So my Neice asks the Teacher what "Chunk Form" is and the Teacher replies, "If you don't know what "Chunk Form" is, then you should go back to Grade 6!". :roll:

Google turns up nothing except references to HTML, Crack, Meth, and Meat! 😀 A few of us assume this has something to do with Paragraphs, but have no idea as the term seems rather scarce in its' useage.

Anybody know WTF this is?
 
I've got this gut feeling it's in the common intro-argument1-argument2-argument3-conclusion form for persuasive papers, but I've been out of the loop too long to know.
 
I have never heard of "chunk form" in my life. If this teacher means that it should be written in paragraphs, he/she needs to be fired immediately and all those poor children should be re-educated.

What the hell.
 
I've lived in the U.S. my entire life and I've never heard of chunk form, if that helps any.
 
Originally posted by: Ikonomi
I have never heard of "chunk form" in my life. If this teacher means that it should be written in paragraphs, he/she needs to be fired immediately and all those poor children should be re-educated.

What the hell.
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Agreed.
 
Originally posted by: jumpr
I've lived in the U.S. my entire life and I've never heard of chunk form, if that helps any.
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Seconded, beat the teacher with a dictionary/encyclopedia and ask her to point out the definition of 'chunk form.'

Then explain to her and the school's principal that if she makes your kid look foolish in front of the class again you'll take it to the board.
 
Originally posted by: ViRGE
I've got this gut feeling it's in the common intro-argument1-argument2-argument3-conclusion form for persuasive papers, but I've been out of the loop too long to know.
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Makes sense, which would explain the HTML references I received.
 
Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Originally posted by: jumpr
I've lived in the U.S. my entire life and I've never heard of chunk form, if that helps any.
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Seconded, beat the teacher with a dictionary/encyclopedia and ask her to point out the definition of 'chunk form.'

Then explain to her and the school's principal that if she makes your kid look foolish in front of the class again you'll take it to the board.
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I agree. To say that sort of thing is completely unprofessional, IMO.
 
Never heard of it. I asked my wife who just got a BA in English and is becoming an English teacher, and she's never heard of it either.
 
Originally posted by: sandorski
Originally posted by: ViRGE
I've got this gut feeling it's in the common intro-argument1-argument2-argument3-conclusion form for persuasive papers, but I've been out of the loop too long to know.
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Makes sense, which would explain the HTML references I received.
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That's known commonly as the Five Paragraph Essay.
 
DAMN, you are one STUPID SOB.....If you don't know how to tell your daughter who couldn't get the teacher to tell her b/c neither you nor your daughter know what CHUNK FORM is then you need to go back to 4th grade....ya, I said it, 4th grade!!!
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
Chunk Form
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Dude, thats exactly what I thought this thread was about from the title only!

Chunk form? Never heard of it. Guessing by her grade level, itd probably be:
Intro, Body1, Body2, Body3, Conclusions?

Thats pretty much the only way I wrote papers back in the middle school years...
 
i am zee google master!
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In a comparison/contrast essay, we can arrange our details by two different methods: chunk and slice. In the chunk method, we write what we have to say about one of the two entities we are comparing (a paragraph or two) and then what we have to say about the other entity. If the entities are labeled A and B, our body paragraphs might look like this: AABB. (If Philip had organized by this method, he would made all his points about one restaurant and then all his points about the other.) In the slice method, on the other hand, we shuttle back and forth between the two entities, either within the same paragraph or paragraph by paragraph. Our body paragraphs, then, might like something like this: ABABAB. (The authors of both sample essays use the slice method.)

 
Originally posted by: Staley8
DAMN, you are one STUPID SOB.....If you don't know how to tell your daughter who couldn't get the teacher to tell her b/c neither you nor your daughter know what CHUNK FORM is then you need to go back to 4th grade....ya, I said it, 4th grade!!!
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Husking Chripes, dude. :Q Ever heard of PUNCTUATION??
 
Originally posted by: ddwbi0
i am zee google master!
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first link,

In a comparison/contrast essay, we can arrange our details by two different methods: chunk and slice. In the chunk method, we write what we have to say about one of the two entities we are comparing (a paragraph or two) and then what we have to say about the other entity. If the entities are labeled A and B, our body paragraphs might look like this: AABB. (If Philip had organized by this method, he would made all his points about one restaurant and then all his points about the other.) In the slice method, on the other hand, we shuttle back and forth between the two entities, either within the same paragraph or paragraph by paragraph. Our body paragraphs, then, might like something like this: ABABAB. (The authors of both sample essays use the slice method.)
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Good work. I have never, ever heard of that. I'm glad to know the teacher wasn't calling paragraphs chunks, which is what came to my mind.

That's pretty esoteric.
 
Still never heard of that method of writing called "chunk form." And even so, if a teacher ridculed my child like that, I'd "chunk form" her ass. A teacher's job is to teach, not to make students feel stupid. If a kid doesn't know something they should know, a teacher should explain it to them. A teacher like that, who would make a child feel stupid in front of the entire class, should not be teaching.
 
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