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lunadelcorvoGood news is, it might actually end sometime soon-ish!
I certainly hope so, because I'm getting grouchier all the time! LOL Last night, I told a student I woud not grade her draft until she fixed the footnotes that were appearing on the bottom of every stinking page! (I even sent her a "let me google that for you" link on how to do footnotes in Word. Sheesh! This is college, people, college! So understandable, but perhaps not my finest moment as a prof....
I'll get something like 45 research papers on the 5th, and 45 exams over the next week to grade, so I expect my eyeballs to fall out in short order. (For someone who became a humanities prof, I sure as heck hate grading papers! o-O)
Still, both classes are more or less going well, and my half-term adult nurses bunch are doing swimmingly! (But a full semester class in exactly 8 class period! yowza!)
I'm nearing the end of my own classwork, too, thanks be! Finished off the huge, soul-crushing research prospectus tonight. Now I have to practice the presentation of same for tomorrow evening, and that class is done! (Well, I have to show up to listen to the rest next time, but *I'm* done...)
And for the other one, I have a draft coming back to which I expect only very minor tweaks, and then that's done, barring a last class at the prof (who is also the COMM dean)'s home. This is likely to include wine and food, so I'm down with that!
Then full on to the holidaze! Wheeee!
Look for the Xmas/Yule card post soon! :D
I certainly hope so, because I'm getting grouchier all the time! LOL Last night, I told a student I woud not grade her draft until she fixed the footnotes that were appearing on the bottom of every stinking page! (I even sent her a "let me google that for you" link on how to do footnotes in Word. Sheesh! This is college, people, college! So understandable, but perhaps not my finest moment as a prof....
I'll get something like 45 research papers on the 5th, and 45 exams over the next week to grade, so I expect my eyeballs to fall out in short order. (For someone who became a humanities prof, I sure as heck hate grading papers! o-O)
Still, both classes are more or less going well, and my half-term adult nurses bunch are doing swimmingly! (But a full semester class in exactly 8 class period! yowza!)
I'm nearing the end of my own classwork, too, thanks be! Finished off the huge, soul-crushing research prospectus tonight. Now I have to practice the presentation of same for tomorrow evening, and that class is done! (Well, I have to show up to listen to the rest next time, but *I'm* done...)
And for the other one, I have a draft coming back to which I expect only very minor tweaks, and then that's done, barring a last class at the prof (who is also the COMM dean)'s home. This is likely to include wine and food, so I'm down with that!
Then full on to the holidaze! Wheeee!
Look for the Xmas/Yule card post soon! :D
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Date: November 27th, 2012 03:32 am (UTC)Glad the teaching gig is working out, the odd off day notwithstanding.
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Date: November 27th, 2012 08:15 am (UTC)They're a historian's nightmare!
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Date: November 27th, 2012 12:10 pm (UTC)In text citations bug me for several reasons. One, the students never seem to learn to properly introduce their sources, and MLA/APA only require the last name and date, leaving the reader scrambling to the reference page to see who in blazes "Jones, 2009" might be, and if their opinion is worth anything. Once at the reference list, APA only uses last name & first initial, so you still may not know who in heck you're dealing with!
And APA (nor, I think MLA, though I don't know it as well) does not require page numbers for paraphrased information, only for direct quotes. WTF? If the purpose is to make your sources easily available to the reader, then you should always have the page number. For my purposes, I sure as heck want to be able to look up the page of a paraphrase, so as to make sure what's being claimed by the student writing is actually what was said!
I know at least APA & MLA are US-based formats (If we've exported them, allow me to apologize on our behalf!). What do you use in the UK?
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Date: November 27th, 2012 01:18 pm (UTC)I hate, loathe and detest endnotes! A bad French habit when they include any at all- it's just slothful. They're also bad, bad, bad at bibliography! Italian authors are more reasonable at footnoting and not bad at bibliography if you can put up with Italian academia-speak which is just...well...odd. :o/
I use MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) which is what I think most UK unis now use for humanities, although I also have to use US formats as I do work for some US and Canadian journals (Canada has its own oddities)!
This can all get very confusing!
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Date: November 27th, 2012 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
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