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When your Paper Comes Back... Understanding Instructor Comments

When you receive your paper, or a draft of your paper, back from the instructor, it may contain marks that are difficult to decipher. Check this page for a key to my notations:

Of course, if you simply can't read the handwriting, you'll have to ask!

Sometimes you may find the comment "I won't keep marking this" -- usually after I have noted more than once some reoccurring error. Take this as an indication that I think you should know how to do this correctly by now. Remember that the more carefully you write and proofread before submitting material to me, fixing the things that you know how to do, the more time I will have to give you feedback on the things you don't yet know.

Please use earlier feedback to improve later work. Few things are more irritating than continuing to correct formatting or content problems that a student has already been taught. Of course there are times when it is more important to add pages to your draft than to polish what you have written -- but please use the instructor's time efficiently, too!


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