Martha's comments are well taken!
I added the section to the syllabus as well as the separate handout as a way
of more quickly getting students to write well, rather than waiting until
they had in their first paper - where I inundated them with comments.
ALSO - in using an editing key I am able to grade papers a bit quicker -
have a better turn around time - one of the biggest (and perfectly
reasonable) gripes students had in my classes.
So - it is simply a matter of finding the balance that works for each of us!
Anne F. Eisenberg
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
SUNY-Geneseo
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From: "GIMENEZ MARTHA E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Teach Soc Listserv (E-mail)" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 3:45 PM
Subject: TEACHSOC: comment on grading comments
Dear all,
I found the contributions on this topic very useful, and I appreciate Anne
Eisenberg's willingness to share her syllabus and guidelines with us.
I am writing, however, to say that the way we are constantly adding
information, instructions, explanations, guidelines, etc. to our syllabi,
in a kind of endless and fruitless attempt to cope with every eventuality
reminds me of my ethnomethodology seminars with Harold Garfinkel, many
years ago. One of the exercises he gave us was to write a list of things
to take along in case we receive a credible forecast that "the big one"
would happen any time soon. Of course, we all had the same experience:
we thought it was a silly thing to assign, started with a few things and
soon after we would have needed a truck to take all we thought we would
need to take ...
The endlessness of this kind process had a technical name I do not recall;
does any one remember?
:)
Martha
