Hey everybody. I am in a terrible mood. I work my ass off for this class everyday which is ok I have to for all classes, but I really can not stand how hard she is grading. I am getting so frustrated about this because on more than 1 occasion I have gone back and looked at my paper and every time I see small errors and fix them but I promise you I can not find enough things wrong to justify the grade she gave me. I understand it my not be a paper that deserves an A but the grade she gave me implies that it is one of the worst papers shes graded in a while. I am really fed up with her and her grading system. I will have to take this to the writing center everyday. Sadly, if she is going to grade like this the only way for me to get an acceptable grade in this class is to take advantage of all the extra credit by going to writing center at least 15 times and I will meed to do around 250 comments. It sucks but if working hard on my papers is not going to get me a passable grade I will have to use the system. I really do not like doing things like that because I feel grades should reflect learning but to get a good grade in here I will have to use the system presented to me. My grade will not tell you how much I learned but instead how much I was willing to use rules to my advantage and I think that is sick. Grades should be based on what you know not who was willing to do cheap things to get ahead. Sometimes the things I actually learn in a class do not help me with my grade.
Well, maybe the method to the madness is the more we write the better writers we will become. So, I too will write comments to your blogs if you will write on mine?
ReplyDeletehmmm that sounds like something i can do
ReplyDeleteI am pretty much going to take advantage of the extra credit options so that I can make up for the grade on I got on my paper, and more. I'm trying to comment A LOT now.
ReplyDeletedude i feel you i have like 35 now but i wanna be at like 250
ReplyDeleteIt is really frustrating. I worked so hard on my paper and I didn't get a terrible grade but I still thought it was better than what i got. I am trying to take advantage of the revisions and the extra credit anyway that I can.
ReplyDeleteyeah i am defiantly going to do the revisions for both papers no matter what because it cant hurt
ReplyDeleteI'm doing the revisions and working on doing extra comments. Just keep your head up and keep working at it! Make it a goal to do a certain number of comments per week. That's what helped me get through all 100 of my comments. I know it's frustrating but don't give up!
ReplyDeleteI feel like my papers are crap after I get graded on them. It's really a confidence killer. :(
haha yeah i got a bunch of comments lately. im at like 55 now
ReplyDeleteI know EXACTLY how you feel about her grading and expectations. She took my paper and basically told me that I needed to "dumb-it-down." Ridiculous.
ReplyDeletei guess mine had to much about episodes i gotta fix all that
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