Things I need for marking

[nmg]

Rubber stamps reading:

• Answer the question
• Answer the question I asked this year, not the one I asked last year
• Irrelevant
• Waffling
• Irrelevant and waffling
• Reproduced without understanding
• Did you attend my lectures?
• Did you read any textbooks?

Ah well. Only another 150 scripts to wade through.

Comments

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

I want this one.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

HAving beenm lsitening to various academics moaning for the last few years, I suggest you should also have the following:

FAIL

Plagiarised

So what?

And this is supposed to mean...?

Wikipedia is not a citeable source

When plagiarising a foreign text, Babelfish is not your friend

[makyo.livejournal.com]

One of the students on my first year "Mathematics for Economists" module has handed in relatively few of the weekly assignments, attended roughly half of the lectures and (mandatory) support classes - and those he did attend he was usually late for, sauntering in after we'd started (on one occasion, 50 minutes late for a 55 minute lecture) with a big grin on his face, as if it was all a big joke.

He once asked for a deadline extension on the grounds that he'd been ill - normally not a problem if some sort of doctor's note is provided, but such was conspicuously absent in this case. He explained (unable to keep a straight face) that he'd had 'flu a couple of days earlier "like you did earlier in the term" - I'd had to cancel a couple of lectures back in January because I'd been languishing at home with proper 'flu, drifting in and out of consciousness with aching limbs and a high temperature. I suggested to him that if this were true then we wouldn't be having this conversation because he'd still be lying at home, semiconscious. He admitted that perhaps he hadn't been that ill after all, now that he thought about it, but could he have another couple of days anyway? He couldn't, as it happened.

I'm rather looking forward to marking his exam script.

[lionsphil.livejournal.com]

Scheme needed one for "a two-element list is not a pair; see notes for lecture X". At least ISTR that being the one I ended up writing out fifty-odd times.

Also, "use structural recursion". You'd think the coursework explicitly stating the range of lecture notes it tests understanding of would be a hint to check up on what those notes cover.

[athena-arena.livejournal.com]

Among my various work-related stamps, I have these two beauties:

http://www.lolmart.com/winfailstamp1.html

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

If you market them, I'll buy a set!

Truth be told, my students would probably assume that waffling is good as one can eat waffles...

[coffeeandtv0.livejournal.com]

In my case, I'd like a small alteration to one or two already suggested:

"Translating the French edition of Wikipedia does not equal original research. See you next year."

[spikeiowa.livejournal.com]

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