Word: commentating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much should graders be required to have their comments make sense? "I believe in free speech," Knight says. "Teachers are allowed to write whatever they want, but professionally there is a line." Shrier has experienced that line. On his first paper written at Harvard, he wrote an overzealous introduction, declaiming about 'mankind.' He didn't get any comment about his bad introduction, or anything else, he remembers. Instead, the T.F. just circled the word 'mankind' and wrote a "weird cryptic comment that said, 'Use humanity. Though it seems like P.C. mumbo jumbo, they tell me I have to say that...
Similarly, an anonymous undergraduate T.F. recalls a co-worker who spilled Chinese food on a student's exam and followed it up with the comment, "Mmmm, Chinese food." Christian R. Goldsmith '98 received the single comment "This is completely WRONG!" on a final. He received an A- on the exam; the graders must be saving the A's for people who were only partially wrong...
Sometimes, though, comments on papers can get a little bit too personal, crossing a different sort of line. One such case arose from anonymous student ("Dick") was writing a cover letter for a paper. "While I was writing it, my girlfriend was bothering me. I wrote her a message in the cover letter about how some people had work to do and that she should leave me alone. And then I forgot to take it out." Most Faculty reading this might have been surprised, but probably would have ignored the matter. However, Dick's teacher chose to take it personally...
Dick's girlfriend, "Jane," read the paper and came across the comment. She responded by writing back to the teacher: "I am 'the bitch' you referred to on [Dick's] paper. I'll have you know, his first loyalty is to me, thank you very much." The Faculty member replied that ladies must stick together in the face of unavoidable, tiresome men and commented at length on Dick's hairstyle. Perhaps this is not what students generally expect when responding to the comments written on their papers...
...worth of groceries) to the state of Iowa (which is building the baby-booming family a new house) to multinationals like Proctor and Gamble (who gave a lifetime supply of Pampers), all of America seems to be pitching in. Not surprising, then, that proud dad Kenny's first comment was simply: "Wow!" As any father will tell him, now comes the difficult part: the first eighteen years...