Huzzah! 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: 2009-09-18 01:34 am (UTC)