Summary Of My Dog Ate My Flash Drive

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Journal #2: “My Dog Ate My Flash Drive and Other Tales Of Woe” Carolyn Foster Segal wrote “My dog ate my flash drive and other tales of woe.” The purpose of Segal writing this essay was to try to change the students. In this essay, she goes on talking about the silly excuses students make. She put together the most common and most bizarre excuses she’s heard, as a college teacher. Even categorized the excuses by four different sections. The four different sections are the most frequently used among students. The essay was written to try to change the student's way of thinking, and stop making up excuses. Also she wrote all this excuses, for the students to see how silly their excuses really sound. Starting with the excuse of the chain saw,