This is an essay that I just finished grading. I blurred it to preserve the author's anonymity but you can still see my corrections in red. The student is a native speaker of Spanish, so the corrections don't have to do with poor command of grammar.
I have 38 more essays to grade.
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Who ever suggested professors get paid too much? By my reckoning, with their education level, value to the community, and their work load, their pay load should probably be on par with that of a doctor in a perfect world.
I used to have a serious phobia of oceans of red ink on my papers, but now I see it as a chance to make a resolution to do better next time.
Whoever said professors get paid too much? About a dozen different states that want to get rid of bargaining rights for public workers...
I feel your pain with the grading. I've got 72 lab reports to go through. :( There goes my weekend and weeknights for awhile.
There are forces within my state that suggest we should be stripped of our medical insurance because it "costs too much." Who's surprised that targeting the teachers is always a priority? The anti-teacher sentiments are at an all-time high.
Out of curiousity, if there is so much red, does a grade have to be horrible? I understand it isn't A, but could it be B? Don't mean this essay, but in general.
When a student forces me to work harder on an essay than s/he did, that can't be right. This is a failing grade, obviously.
If this person is a native Spanish speaker, what on earth can they be getting so wrong? Is it the subject of the essay?
Many sentences were just unfinished fragments. Many sentences in a row started with "It's interesting that". There was a confusion of major proportions as to whether Don Quijote is a poem, an essay, a short story, or something else. There were factual statements that were wrong. There was a passage that simply slaughtered me: "This novel is interesting because it's a novel. And that is interesting."
Pages and pages of this.
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