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What's the source for this? "Unlikely" should be referenced to a research study or at the very least attributed to someone. And if that should prove impossible, I'm sure there are many better examples of this phenomenon than crosswords. -- Jao 09:29, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
I also agree. Crosswords do have obvious potential for learning, such as in a spanish class. Word searches, however, are useless. I remember, I had a class in the 7th grade in which we did word searchers every class for the whole year... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.196.222.108 ( talk) 23:54, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
The quote marked as "citation needed" reminds me remarkably of what my Biology teacher said in a class back in 2002. I don't remember writing it here, but perhaps another student in the class did. Her last name was (or most likely, still is) Mrs. Webber, if anybody wants to put the quote to her name as "unpublished lecture notes" or something. However, I very much doubt that was word for word what she said back in 2002.
Machado's vocabulary is mentioned, but what is it referring to? Nothing but this page really comes up on Google. Snorgle ( talk) 11:57, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
A search of Google suggests "Machado's Vocabulary" refers to... Portuguese homework, as Machado translates to "ax" according to Google Translate. Should probably be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.32.250.65 ( talk) 14:54, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
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No offense intended, but it reads like it was written by some kid who is annoyed at the assignments his teacher gives him, and thinks it's all pointless. There aren't enough citations here to justify most of the text. Honestly, I think it could be reduced to a simple definition, in which case, the article delted or referred to Wiktionary. Thoughts? Happy cricket ( talk) 18:43, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
I agree. I'm also not convinced that 'busy work' applies only to school work. For example, I was linked here from the Dilbert article, which clearly suggests that 'busy work' takes place in corporations. -- 87.86.242.99 ( talk) 17:24, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
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What's the source for this? "Unlikely" should be referenced to a research study or at the very least attributed to someone. And if that should prove impossible, I'm sure there are many better examples of this phenomenon than crosswords. -- Jao 09:29, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
I also agree. Crosswords do have obvious potential for learning, such as in a spanish class. Word searches, however, are useless. I remember, I had a class in the 7th grade in which we did word searchers every class for the whole year... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.196.222.108 ( talk) 23:54, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
The quote marked as "citation needed" reminds me remarkably of what my Biology teacher said in a class back in 2002. I don't remember writing it here, but perhaps another student in the class did. Her last name was (or most likely, still is) Mrs. Webber, if anybody wants to put the quote to her name as "unpublished lecture notes" or something. However, I very much doubt that was word for word what she said back in 2002.
Machado's vocabulary is mentioned, but what is it referring to? Nothing but this page really comes up on Google. Snorgle ( talk) 11:57, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
A search of Google suggests "Machado's Vocabulary" refers to... Portuguese homework, as Machado translates to "ax" according to Google Translate. Should probably be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.32.250.65 ( talk) 14:54, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
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No offense intended, but it reads like it was written by some kid who is annoyed at the assignments his teacher gives him, and thinks it's all pointless. There aren't enough citations here to justify most of the text. Honestly, I think it could be reduced to a simple definition, in which case, the article delted or referred to Wiktionary. Thoughts? Happy cricket ( talk) 18:43, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
I agree. I'm also not convinced that 'busy work' applies only to school work. For example, I was linked here from the Dilbert article, which clearly suggests that 'busy work' takes place in corporations. -- 87.86.242.99 ( talk) 17:24, 29 January 2009 (UTC)