Sigh

I get the faint sense that there is a sense of humour deficit on the interwebs - either in my jokes or their audience. I reckon it's the latter.

Meanwhile, this morning I marked precisely two essays on the pile - the first of which was the kind of plagiarism which doesn't count because most of the sources are in the essay and in fact the whole damn thing is three quotes. The second - I kid you not - was also borderline, in the sense of long quotes and plentiful paraphrases.


I note in passing no one else has spotted plagiarism on this module.

Marked scripts in the exam - when I wasn't escorting the early leavers from the room. Plenty resits, methinks. Many of the scripts bear a FEEDBACK HELPS ME LEARN. Does it buggery? So why am I still marking incorrect bibliographies in level three? Why do they italicise quotations and not film titles? Why are people's names in quotations?

I shall take the pile of portfolios to Caffe Nerd, in the hope of an hour or so uninterrupted marking. Heigho.