This is mind-boggling. I admire your restraint, ahfb. Given: 1. awful, soul-numbingly misinformed content (how many sentences do we think the author actually read and understood in each article? twelve, generously?), 2. just.... baffling grammar, I think I would have succumbed to the temptation to run this through the shredder in disgust. Of course, that's assuming that you don't indulge in the guilty pleasure of paper-destruction AFTER scanning them to LBatF.
Also, I have decided, in my own grading, to distinguish between merely awkward phrasing ("awk" & "wc") and just plain incorrect. I now write words like "wrong" and "bad" on students' papers. It's cathartic. I heartily recommend it.
wow heidi: congrats on being able to write "bad" on things. I'm sure you're not one of those people that grades in purple ink rather than red.
Theres no way I could shred these papers up; i've got all the ones I've edited tucked away. I'm hoping that maybe someday found magazine will do one of their finder profiles on me.
Actually, I mark up papers profusely and in pencil. When one has snarky tendencies, it's wise to be able to curb one's tongue upon rethought. I keep the "bad" and "wrong" though... because sometimes you've got to call a spade a spade. Also, I believe in the possibility of my own falliability... I make syntactical errors, too. ;)
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This is mind-boggling. I admire your restraint, ahfb. Given: 1. awful, soul-numbingly misinformed content (how many sentences do we think the author actually read and understood in each article? twelve, generously?), 2. just.... baffling grammar, I think I would have succumbed to the temptation to run this through the shredder in disgust. Of course, that's assuming that you don't indulge in the guilty pleasure of paper-destruction AFTER scanning them to LBatF.
Also, I have decided, in my own grading, to distinguish between merely awkward phrasing ("awk" & "wc") and just plain incorrect. I now write words like "wrong" and "bad" on students' papers. It's cathartic. I heartily recommend it.
I spat out chocolate just at the headline.
wow heidi: congrats on being able to write "bad" on things. I'm sure you're not one of those people that grades in purple ink rather than red.
Theres no way I could shred these papers up; i've got all the ones I've edited tucked away. I'm hoping that maybe someday found magazine will do one of their finder profiles on me.
Hey, are you a male or a female? I was just talking with someone who thought you were a girl, but I had thought otherwise. Now I'm dying to know.
I'm a guy as seen in one of the recent entries where I drew myself as a stick figure correcting a paper without sympathy for a whiny writer.
Actually, I mark up papers profusely and in pencil. When one has snarky tendencies, it's wise to be able to curb one's tongue upon rethought. I keep the "bad" and "wrong" though... because sometimes you've got to call a spade a spade. Also, I believe in the possibility of my own falliability... I make syntactical errors, too. ;)
Oh, and yay for stick figures.
You're a guy? In that case... *swoon*
things like this make me want to be a gsi just so i can read them all the time and give them bad grades...
the "teal" pen is just the micron pen version of blue. Micron pens rule.
You've got them all "tucked away", huh? You make it sound so organized...
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