Friday, 18 April 2008
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As a matter of principle.
I stayed up late last night finishing this round of papers.
I thought it important that the students get one round of papers back before turning in another. So, about ten minutes before the next round of papers are due, I will be putting this round in their mailboxes.
That next round, I pledge to hand back to them at least ten minutes before they take the final. Which is only ten days from now.
I hate late April.
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So do I.
And imagine a major Festival thrown in for good measure.
Oy.
Yeah, we usually do! I heard somewhere that Easter won't fall as early as it did this year until 2185 or some such.
Speaking of which--do you know why Easter and Passover are so far apart this year? I've been reading about your preparations for Pesach and wondering about that.
I know it's not really your job to keep up with my religious holidays. *grin* But you might know the intricacies behind the dating better than I do.
I'm in the throes of editing a research paper by an undergrad and am about ready to tear out my hair. Is this ESL or what? Hello? And could you get me the paper more than 18 hours before you're supposed to hand it in, like I asked *last semester* and both before and after Christmas vacation and spring break? Especially if you don't know how to write either English or scientese?
The pain of this experience has induced the following two conclusions:1. Current grammatical instruction is even worse than your earlier post suggested. If someone born and raised in this country can't write better than some of the ESL/E3L papers I edit, why bother teaching English?2. Extensions should only be given in extremis majorum. Post hoc extensions that follow a minimum of 4 weeks warning do not represent compassion. (on the other hand, if the resulting paper is legible, they might represent compassion to the grader)Â
HOW do you stand dealing with this from multiple undergrads?? Butchers of the English language! I think that might convince me that language is truly incomprehensible, and that humans are unable to understand propositional revelation.