Hi all,
I'm responding to the comment below (read it if you haven't yet).
It should go without saying that any and all papers that you turn in for school should be grammatically correct. This includes journals and more informal papers. By definition, a journal is more informal, but it's not a personal journal, like one you may keep at home to yourself. When you turn something in for others to read, you should make it as easy to read as possible--i.e. no grammatical errrors, messy handwriting, etc. I'm sorry if I misled some of you, but from this day forward, anything and everything that you turn in (not just to me but to your other profs as well) should be fairly polished in terms of grammar, content, organization and spelling. I'm concerned when you turn in papers with simple grammatical and spelling errors because that leads me to believe you have no skills in these areas, and it's frightful to think that students can pass the eighth grade without basic command of the English language. You should always always always write with good form, no matter what you're writing--from personal journals and diaries to blogs to letters to research papers. The more you write well, the easier it will become and the more natural. I'm only going on this long tirade because I spent the better part of last year grading papers from an undergraduate music history course, where about 2/3 of the papers contained grammar, spelling, and content organization errors. This issue is important because employers will throw away resumes that contain spelling and grammar errors. The same thing goes for job applications, menu-writing, letter-writing, etc.
I haven't been grading you down for grammatical errors--I simply look at the content and give most journals a high score of 10. Sometimes I will correct errors and sometimes I won't. I know that your high-school education may not have prepared you for writing concisely and clearly, but take it upon yourselves to be better writers and thinkers while you're here.
As far as PLAGIARISM goes, that should definitely go without saying. It is wrong to copy someone else's words and not acknowledge them. This is common sense. As far as your grade goes, for those of you who received low scores, I will let you make up those points--I never said I wouldn't. This is all a learning process and mistakes happen. I will definitely let you rewrite it if you want, to get those points back.
If you have any more questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact me.
I'm responding to the comment below (read it if you haven't yet).
It should go without saying that any and all papers that you turn in for school should be grammatically correct. This includes journals and more informal papers. By definition, a journal is more informal, but it's not a personal journal, like one you may keep at home to yourself. When you turn something in for others to read, you should make it as easy to read as possible--i.e. no grammatical errrors, messy handwriting, etc. I'm sorry if I misled some of you, but from this day forward, anything and everything that you turn in (not just to me but to your other profs as well) should be fairly polished in terms of grammar, content, organization and spelling. I'm concerned when you turn in papers with simple grammatical and spelling errors because that leads me to believe you have no skills in these areas, and it's frightful to think that students can pass the eighth grade without basic command of the English language. You should always always always write with good form, no matter what you're writing--from personal journals and diaries to blogs to letters to research papers. The more you write well, the easier it will become and the more natural. I'm only going on this long tirade because I spent the better part of last year grading papers from an undergraduate music history course, where about 2/3 of the papers contained grammar, spelling, and content organization errors. This issue is important because employers will throw away resumes that contain spelling and grammar errors. The same thing goes for job applications, menu-writing, letter-writing, etc.
I haven't been grading you down for grammatical errors--I simply look at the content and give most journals a high score of 10. Sometimes I will correct errors and sometimes I won't. I know that your high-school education may not have prepared you for writing concisely and clearly, but take it upon yourselves to be better writers and thinkers while you're here.
As far as PLAGIARISM goes, that should definitely go without saying. It is wrong to copy someone else's words and not acknowledge them. This is common sense. As far as your grade goes, for those of you who received low scores, I will let you make up those points--I never said I wouldn't. This is all a learning process and mistakes happen. I will definitely let you rewrite it if you want, to get those points back.
If you have any more questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact me.
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