Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 3 days agoI 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.
“Does the paper show a clear tie in to the article?”
Eh… it knows what the article is about at least, so maybe 1 point.
“Does the paper show a thoughtful response…”
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…
I will deduct 10 points if your paper is between 620 and 649 words
630 words means 10 points are deducted. If there’s only 7 available… well, that’s how you get a 0%.
jj4211@lemmy.world 2 days 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.