It’s 5 pm. I’ve been grading non-stop since 9:30 am. And, I’ve come to the conclusion that my students are complete morons. I don’t know what happened. This class has been a delight all semester but suddenly it’s like they all checked out. I really cannot remember the last time I have seen so many papers with so many egregious errors.
A few choice selections:
“Its so depth in its content that would not be confined to just one area but would allow us to explore many other topic to be discuss in class.”
“There were many different points of view and opinions written at the time and many essays, novels, and articles written to show opinions, how they thought things should be different, how to better handle situations, or what they thought should be happening.”
“XXX first makes an unrelistic lanundy list of all the carteristics a women must posess in order to be his wife.” [Yes, that would be six misspellings in one sentence -- surely a record!]
“Once women had obtained the right to vote, they resumed their fight against slavery.” [Referring to the United States.]
Oh my God, they are so dumb.
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October 30, 2008 at 12:22 am
disenchanted
It’s the October slump. My sympathies.
October 30, 2008 at 1:48 am
hilaire
I am totally having the same disenchantment. I have been grading annotated bibliographies that are surely the worst things I’ve ever graded. It makes me want to poke my eyes out.
Sympathies.
October 30, 2008 at 2:57 am
Belle
Ah yes, lovely idiotic studentisms. Do you ever take them back to the class – anon of course – and share? I do; sometimes it helps, sometimes not. But since most don’t think we really pay attention, it shocks them to discover we do.
I also collect them for my historiography class, when I make students correct the mistakes of fact, grammar, syntax and logic. That works.
November 2, 2008 at 5:11 am
Dr. Curmudgeon
Ouch. For what it’s worth, my students have been doing that all term.
I’ve got a policy now where after the fourth major error, I stop grading, dock them a bunch of points, and make them rewrite. Even that hasn’t been enough to make them stop. But it makes me feel better, particularly when I can make some rewrite after one sentence.
November 3, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Clio Bluestocking
Sarah Palin is in your class?
Seriously: ouch! I’m feeling your grading pain at the moment.