I got a zero on a paper my freshman year of college, for not citing sources in my writing. I learned from that mistake and did better for the rest of my academic career.
She’s a junior, she should know that by now.
Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 days agoThe irony is, if she had gotten a 35% that would have been the end of it. This whole thing blew up because she got a 0. That’s why I feel like 0’s should never be given on an assignment unless literally nothing was turned in. A 0 comes off as personal; even in cases like this where the person absolutely deserves to fail, it casts doubt on the impartiality of the grader.
But giving a 35%? Well that’s different. That’s acknowledging the person attempted the assignment, they just did a pathetically shit job at it. In some ways, it’s more humiliating than a 0, because the grader at least tried to give you some credit, but is still highlighting how fucking stupid you are.
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 2 days ago
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m a very generous marker, generally I look for any merit and credit where I can within the scheme.
A 0 is a very strong statement saying “you produced nothing of value”, and it’s very very rare to hand out. In the case of a deduction, normally you tell them their grade pre-penalty to at least signal what was worthwhile with the aim of helping the student grow.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hell, based on the quality of writing she is probably used to scores like 35%.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I agreed with you for a few minutes; but now I think that the 0 is the correct score based on the instructions.
Initially, I read what she wrote and came to the conclusion that she should probably get at least 3 points out of the available 5 points to the question, “is the paper clearly written?” It is. It’s insane to try to refute that. She should get at least something here. If clarity is the only qualifier, sure, let’s give her a 5.
Eh… it knows what the article is about at least, so maybe 1 point.
No, not really… but there are words here, so maybe 1 point again.
She’s at a 7/25, so, 28%. The problem for her was this part…
630 words means 10 points are deducted. If there’s only 7 available… well, that’s how you get a 0%.
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think that is all correct, but still might find some way to rationalize up to a non zero final grade, just because of the extreme optics while something like a 3/25 is for all intents and purposes just as bad but just “looks” better.
But frankly the students intent from the second of reading the assignment was likely to leverage the assignment to cry woke and go to Internet no matter what.