Got my grade :-)
Jan. 24th, 2013 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethMy grade for last semester is in
For the Life Writing class I pretty much didn't turn up to with the teacher I always get rubbish grades from
who has different ideas about how grammar and punctuation work than... every style guide I own and most everything I've ever read.
60%
Which is, just, on the grade boundary for a 2:1
I am slightly frustrated that her feedback is things like 'is this from the Reader' when following the [name] and reading the Bibliography would show yes, it is in fact from the Reader, and hey, the bibliography is right there at the end of the page. Or, "did you get feedback on this on BB? Did you edit the work? Did it begin from an exercise in class? " when my commentary says "This piece started as an entry on my online journal" and "Feedback there and in class" led to "I revised the opening" and "I only strengthened the zombie metaphor, editing out a reference to being distracted by shiny things that seemed inconsistent with zombies to some readers."
So I got feedback online and in class
I revised and edited the work in response to it
and it didn't start from an exercise, it started from my online journal, the exact page which is linked to in the bibliography.
But that was in the 'needs improvement' section so that's areas I lost marks in.
Which is frustrating, because I thought that was pretty clear.
Also frustrating is being told it jolts and is disjointed and I explained it's meant to jolt and be stumbling. And if that was a problem then some feedback to that effect at an earlier stage would have been nice. And it's not that I didn't turn up to class and get feedback, it's that I showed her and didn't get feedback.
Also it says the science fiction is too strong and it is supposed to be life writing. I had a whole paragraph about how Haiti deals with mental illness through zombies. But okay, I'm a science fiction writer, and I didn't turn up for lessons enough to know what Life Writing is. That's just a bit sad, that's not frustrating.
I have plugged the numbers in to my giant spreadsheet of grade calculation and reckon I now need to get at least 64% on my dissertation to get a First overall.
If I pass at all, hand something in and make at least 40%, I will get a 2:1.
But it would be a disappointing 2:1 because until this year with the being ill 63% was my worst mark ever and that was for Modernism with this same teacher and I loathe Modernism something fierce.
Okay, my employee is here so I'll stop chewing over the grade and go take things to the library and get more books.
The plan is to go see The Hobbit. I hope this works out.
For the Life Writing class I pretty much didn't turn up to with the teacher I always get rubbish grades from
who has different ideas about how grammar and punctuation work than... every style guide I own and most everything I've ever read.
60%
Which is, just, on the grade boundary for a 2:1
I am slightly frustrated that her feedback is things like 'is this from the Reader' when following the [name] and reading the Bibliography would show yes, it is in fact from the Reader, and hey, the bibliography is right there at the end of the page. Or, "did you get feedback on this on BB? Did you edit the work? Did it begin from an exercise in class? " when my commentary says "This piece started as an entry on my online journal" and "Feedback there and in class" led to "I revised the opening" and "I only strengthened the zombie metaphor, editing out a reference to being distracted by shiny things that seemed inconsistent with zombies to some readers."
So I got feedback online and in class
I revised and edited the work in response to it
and it didn't start from an exercise, it started from my online journal, the exact page which is linked to in the bibliography.
But that was in the 'needs improvement' section so that's areas I lost marks in.
Which is frustrating, because I thought that was pretty clear.
Also frustrating is being told it jolts and is disjointed and I explained it's meant to jolt and be stumbling. And if that was a problem then some feedback to that effect at an earlier stage would have been nice. And it's not that I didn't turn up to class and get feedback, it's that I showed her and didn't get feedback.
Also it says the science fiction is too strong and it is supposed to be life writing. I had a whole paragraph about how Haiti deals with mental illness through zombies. But okay, I'm a science fiction writer, and I didn't turn up for lessons enough to know what Life Writing is. That's just a bit sad, that's not frustrating.
I have plugged the numbers in to my giant spreadsheet of grade calculation and reckon I now need to get at least 64% on my dissertation to get a First overall.
If I pass at all, hand something in and make at least 40%, I will get a 2:1.
But it would be a disappointing 2:1 because until this year with the being ill 63% was my worst mark ever and that was for Modernism with this same teacher and I loathe Modernism something fierce.
Okay, my employee is here so I'll stop chewing over the grade and go take things to the library and get more books.
The plan is to go see The Hobbit. I hope this works out.