Need to discuss last semester's English grade with my proferssor...

Dec 30, 2004
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Any advice you all could provide would be great.

Here's what I've got:

I sent him an email asking to "discuss my performance last semester." I received a B, but I felt my quality of work warranted an A.
I:
-Contributed regularly to our discussions
-Made it to class on time most of the time
-In our group project with 5 people, about 60% of the effort was split between me and my friend building a minin level in Neverwinter Nights. We provided a quiz/trivia game whereby the user was quizzed by various characters in the level on Rory McVeigh's writing entitled "Structured Ignorance."
-Of our two papers we wrote, I had a B on the first one, which I corrected and implemented the changes he recommended. I turned it in along with my second paper (which I definately thought was worth a B, maybe a low-mid A. Of course man is always wise in his own eyes...)

Any pointers on how I could discuss this whole thing with him? I want to be respectful and all that, but it always felt like he was mocking what we said in class to a certain extent, telling us we were wrong, etc. What would be the best way to deal with this (I have this feeling he's not going to be too keen about this) and, after presenting my reasons, get him to think I should have an A, and not a B...but getting him to think this without me having to say it?

Thanks a bunch.
 

venk

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Dec 10, 2000
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step one - get on your kness
step two does not involve praying
step three is get an A
 

MazerRackham

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You want to negotiate for a higher grade? Good luck. When I was in grad school and TA'd classes, I used to LOVE students like you. NOT. Take your B like a man!
 

dxkj

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Umm, you obviously didn't earn an A. If a whiney little student came to me asking for a better grade, and said they did A work... I would be very insulted... you are basically telling the prof, hey prof, you got this all wrong, i earned an A, your grading skills, and the fact that i didnt get A's on the test proves that I earned an A...

just suck it up, you didnt earn an A you earned a B< take what you earned and live with it.
 

DaveSimmons

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Aug 12, 2001
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I don't see anything there that shows you did more than pretty good (aka "B") work in the class. An A is supposed to be for superior work.
 

DAWeinG

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The only way you can change your grade is if a clerical error was made. If someone added up the points wrong and you can prove it, then there is a possibility that the grade can change. But so far, whatever you wrote in your original post does not seem like it adds up to an A. Therefore you do not deserve an A.