I take a break from studying for finals to bring you this quote from my Psychology book:
With each year that goes by and as new relationships are discovered, a richer, more detailed story emerges, and we suspect that soon students will stop asking why the study of psychology begins with an exploration of the biological basis of behavior. This exploration, in turn, begins with the nervous system and its building block, the neuron.*
This is the kind of all-around poor writing that makes much of modern study uninspiring if not downright distracting. I mean, look at me! Those two words made me stop my reading, highlight the offending phrase, make a snarky comment in the margin, and blog about it. Now granted, I
am a geek, but still!
"In turn"? That barely makes any sense! It seems like this is the first draft. It takes extra study time just to understand the hastily-strewn-together sentences. Oh well, </rant>
I ought to get back to my studying now. I will probably not post about this past weekend's trip to Niagara Falls till I get home. Oh, yeah. I went to Niagara Falls last weekend.
-Rebekah
*Goldstein, Jeffrey H, and Patricia M Wallace. Introduction To Psychology. 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.