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sinope at 03:49pm on 21/05/2010
sinope at 03:49pm on 21/05/2010. . . for a rant.
Normally, grading my students' writing doesn't bother me. To the contrary, bad writing or spelling tends to bemuse me more than anything.
But. Oh. My. God.
In a single short essay answer, one student used all the following abbreviations, many of them repeatedly:
Neo-Assyr. (Neo-Assyrian)
bc (because)
amt. (amount)
agric. (agricultural)
inc. (increased)
gov. (governmental)
diff. (difference)
deport. (deportation)
approx. (approximately)
w/ (with)
Appropriate for notes? Absolutely. Appropriate for e-mail? Relatively speaking. Appropriate for academic essays? Oh hell no.
O Internet, what have you done to our children?!?!?
Normally, grading my students' writing doesn't bother me. To the contrary, bad writing or spelling tends to bemuse me more than anything.
But. Oh. My. God.
In a single short essay answer, one student used all the following abbreviations, many of them repeatedly:
Neo-Assyr. (Neo-Assyrian)
bc (because)
amt. (amount)
agric. (agricultural)
inc. (increased)
gov. (governmental)
diff. (difference)
deport. (deportation)
approx. (approximately)
w/ (with)
Appropriate for notes? Absolutely. Appropriate for e-mail? Relatively speaking. Appropriate for academic essays? Oh hell no.
O Internet, what have you done to our children?!?!?