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icepixieHuzzah! Chapter 2 of my thesis is done and e-mailed off. I now have 26 pages all together, which is just about half the minimum page count. (Of course, given how this chapter ballooned on me, I have a feeling I'll be bumping up against a hundred pages before it's all over...) I'm not as thrilled with this chapter as I would like to be, but I think there's good stuff buried under all the confusion. I hope, anyway. We'll see what happens.
Tomorrow I get 44 papers to grade. Joy. I've had a few more students come by to see me in office hours, though (seriously, I think I hold the English department record for most non-mandatory office hours visits--woo!), and for the most part they seem to be getting it. My philosophy for this paper, since I'm having it count for less of a percentage of their final grade, is to grade a bit harder than I might ordinarily, so that everyone realizes expectations are higher in college without it hurting their final grade overmuch. Even so, I might still be giving out more than a few As.
Tomorrow I get 44 papers to grade. Joy. I've had a few more students come by to see me in office hours, though (seriously, I think I hold the English department record for most non-mandatory office hours visits--woo!), and for the most part they seem to be getting it. My philosophy for this paper, since I'm having it count for less of a percentage of their final grade, is to grade a bit harder than I might ordinarily, so that everyone realizes expectations are higher in college without it hurting their final grade overmuch. Even so, I might still be giving out more than a few As.
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Date: 2009-09-17 10:33 pm (UTC)(Also: dude, my minimum is eighty! How is yours less than mine?)
(Also also: congrats! :) )
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Date: 2009-09-18 01:36 am (UTC)Heh. No, that's just me wanting to have more time to hunt for jobs next semester.
(Also: dude, my minimum is eighty! How is yours less than mine?)
I...don't know? Actually, I think my minimum is technically sixty, but all the ones I looked at in the library were between fifty and sixty, so I think it's more "it's done when it's done" than anything else. The theoretical maximum is ninety.
Will yours perhaps have illustrations and figures?
(Also also: congrats! :) )
Thanks. :)