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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.
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.
no subject
Sat in on my first plagiarism 'trials' this week - i'm going to be in charge of it for the next three years, w00t.
And one of my colleagues marks in coffeeshops, because he's away from the internet there... but I worry passers-by would note how quickly we mark exam scripts and take offence!
no subject
And frankly I can give them feedback without marking their scripts 90% of the time:
structure your answer
answer the question which has been set
demonstrate that you know the material (like by having read something not mentioned on the Powerpoint slides*)
read the course aims and think how you can prove you've achieved them
analyse don't describe
* All too often I nearly give a high mark to someone who has merely done what they were meant to. As in, anything other than describe the plot and regurgitate two of the quotations from my lecture.