I find it really boring when students attempt to get me to revise my grading criteria based on what some mythical “other courses” were like.
This semester, for instance, I learned that:
– other professors encourage students to repeat the same statements word for word within a single essay;
– in other courses, not knowing the difference between “their” / “there” and “its” / “it’s” does not impact your grade for written assignments;
– a sentence that starts with “In this painting it shows the picture depicting the owl” is highly appreciated in other courses;
– other professors do not require that an essay have either an introduction or a conclusion;
– in other courses, professors believe that Incas lived on the territory that is now the United States;
– in other courses, professors do not insist that students sign their emails because they can always do online searches to figure out the author of each email;
– other professors do not believe that confusing Spain with England in 3 different assignments is that big of a deal;
– people who can’t write a single sentence without 5 spelling, 3 lexical and 2 syntactic mistakes got praised for their impeccable writing style in other courses.
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