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Anyone notice that english teachers will keep giving you the same grade

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platinumike

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on papers? in my english comp class. I got a C on the 1st paper, it was c-worthy, and so was another. But all other 5 papers, i actually spent days of just going over each and every single sentence. Yet i still recieve a c or c-. I swear eng. teachers just read 1/2 the story, open up their book, see what they gave you last time, and add a + or - to it. I didnt know such cool teachers could be so evil when they go home and grade papers.
 
You mean I could've just done one great paper at the beginning of the year, then wrote junk the rest of the time?! :|
 
Um, no, not really. When I tried, I got As, when I didn't, I got Cs.

Maybe you just suck at writing....?
 
Actually, I sort of agree. I'd always start off strong in English classes and after that my writings would decline quickly in quality, but the teacher never seemed to notice.

(Not bragging about my HS marks, I was a terrible student.)
 
Maybe. The last paper as ATOT may recall, I posted on here, and everyone revised it, and said it actually sounded pretty darn good, and achieving a complement on an online forum is rare.
 
man i couldn't imagine being an english teacher and reading so many crappy high school papers. It's bad enough grading papers by seniors in college, if you want to do a decent job (or even understand what they're trying to say) it takes a good 5-10 min/page.

i'd probably do the same, just look up their last grades and put the same thing down.
 
Im actually a freshman in college now. However, in highschool, every single eng. teacher I had said i wrote good papers. I would never recieve a c or below. MAn, how wrong they were.
 
I'd say most english teachers are like that. But not for the reasons you think. They are looking for one specific thing in each paper - if you use it you get some form of an A. If you don't use it you have some form of C. If you write complete gibberish you get an F.

What they are looking for depends on the teacher. I had one that required a very specific layout of the introduction. You could spend weeks pooring over the text and conclusions to perfect them, but if you didn't have the specific form of introduction paragraph you got a C. My wife had a professor who was an extreme feminist. If you tied your paper into feminism you got an A. If not you got a C.

The key is to find the one thing they really want to see and do that one thing well. Then just make certain the rest is somewhat acceptable.
 
Originally posted by: dullard
I'd say most english teachers are like that. But not for the reasons you think. They are looking for one specific thing in each paper - if you use it you get some form of an A. If you don't use it you have some form of C. If you write complete gibberish you get an F.

What they are looking for depends on the teacher. I had one that required a very specific layout of the introduction. You could spend weeks pooring over the text and conclusions to perfect them, but if you didn't have the specific form of introduction paragraph you got a C. My wife had a professor who was an extreme feminist. If you tied your paper into feminism you got an A. If not you got a C.

The key is to find the one thing they really want to see and do that one thing well. Then just make certain the rest is somewhat acceptable.
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I think you've unraveled the mystery. Yet I dunno what he's looking for >_> <_<. Maybe money?
 
Originally posted by: dullard
My wife had a professor who was an extreme feminist. If you tied your paper into feminism you got an A. If not you got a C.
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Haha, I went to complain about a class at Scripps to one of my old professors, and he suggested that at the end of every paper i put, "In conclusion, black people and women are superior and should be given higher paying jobs."
 
Did you ever bother to talk to the teacher after you started making an effort, to find out the reasons why you still got a C / C-?

Your teacher might have just placed you in the slacker bin, or there may still be flaws in your writing skills that you need to address.

Also, -1 point for confusing "complement" with "compliment" 😉
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Did you ever bother to talk to the teacher after you started making an effort, to find out the reasons why you still got a C / C-?
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Exactly. I forgot about this example in my post above. I had one professor my freshman year who kept giving me Bs. I needed straight As to maintain some scholarships (4.0 students only). I panicked and went to the professor in person. He said that all I had to do was include personal opinion in my writings (it wasn't needed or called for in the assignments). I did that for the last two papers, got an A+ on both, and barely got an A in the class.

 
I remember my high school teacher saying something about this happening at his college. He also said he did an experiment with one of the good writers in class who got A's, just type up an intro and staple blank pages behind it..and ended up with an A on that assignment as well.

Of course he also claimed he worked for the Lincoln administration and helped Einstein with his theory of relativity..so take what he says with a grain of salt.
 
My sophomore English teacher in HS was like that... she basically looked at your last grade, and added/removed a couple points to that based on how much she liked you. I know it sounds stupid to complain about getting a bad grade because a teacher "didn't like you", but I'm 100% certain that it affected my grading in that class. There were several incidents where other students would ask for a project extension because "they didn't have enough free time over spring break", and she happily granted it to them... whereas I went to her one day pleading an extension on a paper when I had 5 other projects due the same day, and she made me get up and recite what I had written in my assignment book for the past 3 weeks to try and demonstrate that I was a slacker (I sh!t you not). God, I hated that bitch.

My freshman and junior/senior English teachers were great though, and I almost always got the grade that corresponded to the work I put in.
 
One time in a physics lab I was sure our professor did not read the whole write-up, so I put some weird crap in there about a black hole forming an accretion disk then suddenly belching. Luckily he was a cool guy because he wrote "Yes, I actually read these" and since the rest of the assignment was complete and performed well I did not get docked any points. I would also argue that extreme ass-kissing can backfire (as far as grades): as long as you clearly make your point and do not have technical errors you should be able to do well. I recall one coprehensive exam where ALL of the students and several faculty in my program warned me if I did not include certain theories (favored by one of the examiners) I had no change of passing. I thought these theories were mostly bs so I did not mention them even once. No idea what happened behin closed doors in the committee, but I did pass the examination and did not have to prostitute myself to do it.
 
Originally posted by: isasir
You mean I could've just done one great paper at the beginning of the year, then wrote junk the rest of the time?! :|
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LOL why didn't you? Most of my professors tell me that I am an above average writer, but from time to time I do get lazy, and I usually still receive an A.
 
Originally posted by: dullard
I'd say most english teachers are like that. But not for the reasons you think. They are looking for one specific thing in each paper - if you use it you get some form of an A. If you don't use it you have some form of C. If you write complete gibberish you get an F.

What they are looking for depends on the teacher. I had one that required a very specific layout of the introduction. You could spend weeks pooring over the text and conclusions to perfect them, but if you didn't have the specific form of introduction paragraph you got a C. My wife had a professor who was an extreme feminist. If you tied your paper into feminism you got an A. If not you got a C.

The key is to find the one thing they really want to see and do that one thing well. Then just make certain the rest is somewhat acceptable.
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^^
 
I have a buddy taking part time college right now.
He once told me about the grading system for him.
He says when he scrambles two days before a deadline and puts together some BS, he usually gets an A or A-. When he works his butt off for a month he normally gets a B- or C+.

The easy solution is to go with what works best.
The ethical solution is to sit down and have a discussion with the instructor concerning all his papers to date.
I hope he takes the easy way out.
 
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