<p>Don't worry I'm definately NOT going to do this, but what if a student was clearly running out of time to write the essay and was in danger of scoring a very poor grade simply because he couldn't come up with any examples? His mind was just completely blank. Hypthetically what do you think would happen if someone referenced very unscholarly literature like comic books or manga, or even TV shows and movies! (not based of an original novel fo course) Imagine if the essay demonstrated an extremely intelligent and convincing view on the topic and had great support, progression, and coherence anyway. Would the person still receive a bad score? Or if the student wasn't THAT great of a writer (around a score 9-10 range normally) do you think he would be in danger of getting a 0? heh, just want to hear what you think, or if you know of any evidence against using those types of examples.</p>
<p>Why would citing comics and tv shows and movies result in a bad score? Where in SAT essay rubric do you see "unhistorical/unliterary examples". There's devloped and undeveloped examples showing critical thinking. While the above mentioned examples don't require too much critical thinking, I'm sure if you wrote a good essay, expanded on the examples well enough to support your point, you'd get a 10. All this hype on the correct type of examples are honestly to ensure a 12. All essays that have good developed examples regardless of the number of them will always get a 10 at least(assuming you didn't mess up your thesis or conclusion)</p>
<p>So you're saying that even if someone used something ridiculous like using Light Yagami's vigilantism in Tsugumi Ohba's story "Death Note" as an example the person could potentially still receive a score of 11 or 12? lol that's cool, I'd still be wary of trying that though.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure you can even make up your essay examples, like literary examples or personal examples. There is nothing against that. (Although real examples may look better and making up historical examples is probably bad).</p>
<p>There's nothing that suggests literary examples are any better than others. It's just that readers may be more comfortable with the ideas presented. </p>
<p>People write stuff about Batman, Calvin and Hobbes, Hannah Montana, etc and get perfect scores all the time.</p>
<p>Well Death note is a real story, it's actually a comic. But since the graders are going through the essays so quickly, you think you could even MAKE UP a literary example? Would YOU do it? Because its not like the teacher would assume it isn't real right</p>
<p>no because they don't have the time, effort OR concern to validate your examples. They validate what you write, not what you write about. If you can convince them that the example supports your thesis, it's good. And just because you make up an example doesn't mean you have to write more than you would to use a historical example. There's nothing that says the grader knows history any better than your imagination. You have to exposit both examples to the level where the reader can read your paragraph and know exactly how it corresponds to your thesis.</p>