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marking, grading and handling other’s work with care.

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That time of the year when all the work has to be marked, graded, collated, data accurately recorded, scripts sent to Externals, paperwork generated for a years coursework. Important to remember that these exam scripts and projects, Journals and essays, represent hours and hours of work, hard pushed effort to meet looming deadlines, so no shortage of anxiety and hopefulness. Such work and costly labour, so much read and written, revised and submitted -  All of which prompts the following Haiku (Typepad's new software does daft things with indents, font size and stuff – I'll practice)

Advice for Anxious Students
Marking and grading-
wood or straw, gold or silver?
Do good works- and hope.

Ideal Essays 1
Write a good essay-
well wrought words capture ideas
in structured syntax.

Ideal Essays 2
Clear intro, conclude,
make sense in the middle, plus
Bibliography

Motto for Markers
Judge coursework with care –

assume honest long labour,

and assess intent.

Beatitude for Students
Blessed are those who
read the question carefully
and answer it well.

Beatitude for Markers
Blessed are those who
make allowance for effort –
but not for short change.

Comments

4 responses to “marking, grading and handling other’s work with care.”

  1. Catriona avatar
    Catriona

    I think your students are well blessed to have you reading their work. As I also am blessed to have very gracious, long suffering supervisors.
    Real Essays 1:
    There’s never enough time
    So you do the best you can –
    And hope for the best
    Real Essays 2:
    There’re never enough words
    So you miss out adjectives
    And hope for the best
    Real Essays 3:
    How come real hard slog
    Earns a 2:2 when rushed blag
    Gains a solid first?!
    Beatitude for full time ministers trying also to be part time post grad students …
    Blessed are those who
    Despite pastoral demands
    Submit work on time

    Reply
  2. Catriona avatar
    Catriona

    I think your students are well blessed to have you reading their work. As I also am blessed to have very gracious, long suffering supervisors.
    Real Essays 1:
    There’s never enough time
    So you do the best you can –
    And hope for the best
    Real Essays 2:
    There’re never enough words
    So you miss out adjectives
    And hope for the best
    Real Essays 3:
    How come real hard slog
    Earns a 2:2 when rushed blag
    Gains a solid first?!
    Beatitude for full time ministers trying also to be part time post grad students …
    Blessed are those who
    Despite pastoral demands
    Submit work on time

    Reply
  3. andy jones avatar
    andy jones

    3,000 word haiku (with a 10% allowance rounded up)
    3,000’s one word. Don’t use
    conjunctions. Doesn’t matter
    if it’s grammar… write (tightly).

    Reply
  4. andy jones avatar
    andy jones

    3,000 word haiku (with a 10% allowance rounded up)
    3,000’s one word. Don’t use
    conjunctions. Doesn’t matter
    if it’s grammar… write (tightly).

    Reply

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