The boringness continues…
I’m about to go home for the night. I arrived on campus a little more than 12 hours ago, and with the exception of a productive and positive meeting with my committee chair and a brief excursion to pick up Chinese food for dinner, I’ve been sitting in this same damned chair the whole time.
Grading papers took ages; I need to re-evaluate this whole “online papers” concept, at least for the purposes of grading. I hadn’t realized that it would be so difficult to note small grammatical things online, the sort of detail that one might just circle with a pen and annotate with an “Awk.” I might try creating PDFs of student papers and annotating those for the next assignment, or maybe I’ll just kill some trees and print everything out…
February 11th, 2004 at 9:35 am
i do this all the time. it is actually easier than it looks. where there is a spelling error just click after the word and hit return a few times, same with grammar errors, if it is particularly bad, tell them what the error is. i also do inline comments like this, just hit a return or two and type the comment. it is actually somewhat easy to do if you are using the keyboard instead of the mouse because then you will have the cursor at the right position on the page.