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Tonight, after a weekend of prevarication, I marked a batch of essays.
Students are their own worst enemies - increasing numbers are printing out single space and (I'm not sure why this annoys me but it does) on both sides of the paper. Italicising film titles (like I do on the lecture slides) seems to be out, save for where it is also in quotation marks, and those students who also italicise every quotation, date and reference irrespective of the source or its need to be italicised.
Too many of them are simply writing about a film (although at least aren't just summarizing the plot) as if the question I've set is just for the sake of my health. Which clearly it isn't. If the question is on the sublime, cognition, estrangement, define these terms. Maybe even use them occasionally.
Given the library resources (an atrium big enough to house 94 double decker buses) it is hardly surprising that dead tree references are rarer then hen's teeth, but despite precise instructions Kuhn and Redmond tend to be quoted rather than Bukatman or Sontag who wrote that chapter. If any of the students - notice that word there, any - had come to see me, I might have been able to point them towards the secondary literature on Blade Runner, The Matrix, Dark City. Some of it is on JSTOR.
And a special prize to a student whose six quotations were all taken from the lecture, despite all being from sources readily available on line thanks to Google or Gutenberg.
Students are their own worst enemies - increasing numbers are printing out single space and (I'm not sure why this annoys me but it does) on both sides of the paper. Italicising film titles (like I do on the lecture slides) seems to be out, save for where it is also in quotation marks, and those students who also italicise every quotation, date and reference irrespective of the source or its need to be italicised.
Too many of them are simply writing about a film (although at least aren't just summarizing the plot) as if the question I've set is just for the sake of my health. Which clearly it isn't. If the question is on the sublime, cognition, estrangement, define these terms. Maybe even use them occasionally.
Given the library resources (an atrium big enough to house 94 double decker buses) it is hardly surprising that dead tree references are rarer then hen's teeth, but despite precise instructions Kuhn and Redmond tend to be quoted rather than Bukatman or Sontag who wrote that chapter. If any of the students - notice that word there, any - had come to see me, I might have been able to point them towards the secondary literature on Blade Runner, The Matrix, Dark City. Some of it is on JSTOR.
And a special prize to a student whose six quotations were all taken from the lecture, despite all being from sources readily available on line thanks to Google or Gutenberg.
