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February 19, 2006
Papers. Piles and piles of papers.
I try - really I do - but there's something about team teaching and syllabus building that ALWAYS leaves me grading papers from more than one class at the same time; in a semester with a grand total of 88 students that can be a little time-consuming.
Gosh some people are bad readers, too. Right now I'm taking a break from papers about sculptures on campus (Elizabeth Blackwell and the scissors) to grade papers comparing 3 versions of the medieval "cradle tale." -- the most familiar to most folks is probably Chaucer's version, the Reeve's Tale. It's tiresome how many of them (and I've only marked about 10 so far) miss the simple difference that Boccaccio's version (the Sixth Story from the Ninth Day) is about an innkeeper rather than a miller.
It's hard to write a good paper if you haven't read closely.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at February 19, 2006 9:20 PM