Elementary TA Notes | Changing homework is a kind of cultivation

Seriously, in an English-speaking country taking classes in English and teaching academic English writing to a group of native English-speaking students, decades ago, my high school English teacher would say to you, "Impossible! This guy doesn't understand English at all! She can't even tell the difference between form and form, and she fails every year." In fact, my English is still very poor, especially in spoken English, and I even feel worse after I study, but for the sake of salary and high-paying dentist/psychological consultation Insurance, you can only bite the bullet and pretend to know what you are doing.

As mentioned in the first elementary TA notes, I originally thought that TA was just taking a name and changing an assignment, but I didn’t know that I had to bring a discussion class. In this class, not only the content of the lecture was prepared (the original intention was for students to discuss, but Students do not speak, they can only perform by themselves), to help students review what they have learned in class, but also to train students' independent thinking and writing skills, of course, listening to students talking about various reasons for not being able to hand in homework on time is also one of them. .

Let's take a look at a letter received this semester: (here I will directly translate it into Chinese)

 I wish I could talk to you about what was reported during the extension period. I found myself having a hard time finding the time to write an interim report, I didn't even know there was an interim report until you brought it up in a last discussion class, obviously I missed a main class, and it is said that in that class, the professor talked about having such a The title of an interim report and how to write it, and the reason I missed the main class is because I had absolutely no idea that there was one, and I was only recently told that there would be an instant lecture once a month (usually pre-recorded), but no one told me about it for the past month. Anyhow, I'd be very grateful if I could get an extension.

This classmate clearly logged in to zoom in every discussion class. I don't know what he's doing, because we can't force students to turn on the camera. I think he might turn on the mute after logging in, and he missed every important thing.

will i give it? Of course, the students who pay the tuition fees are the largest. This is the principle of the school, and I also rely on their tuition fees to eat, so I will let me know before the deadline. As long as I ask me for an extension before the deadline, I will give it for any reason. And you will be surprised that even if you say so, there are still many people who will write a bunch of reasons to postpone the deadline after the deadline, fake Email insisting that they have sent it to the TA but the wrong TA.

And some people's letters moved me to tears. He experienced a whole semester of pain and struggle, and now he has come to his senses and decided to overcome the pain. He died yesterday, and from today he will be a good young man of the era and make up for the missed progress. It was so inspirational, so I relented and wrote a long letter about how to remedy it. Then, there was no more, and the class still didn't come.

The TA guide does not have any guidance on how to recover when a TA has been cheated on by a student.

And changing the homework is really a challenge to my vision.

You think this article is already badly written, but when you change the second article, you think: Ah! It turns out that the first article just lacks turning words and proper transitions, and occasionally there are more irrelevant arguments between paragraphs , but at least the entire article has enough evidence to prove its statement.

But when I changed to the third article, I looked back and found that the second article was not so bad. This one just gave three statements, which caused the whole article to lose focus , but the three statements were in their respective paragraphs. Finally, there is sufficient evidence and logic to explain it clearly.

Changed to the fourth article, and then I thought: Well, the third article may be to make up the number of words, repeating my statement indefinitely, straight, backward, palindrome, split into two sentences, etc. Wait, but at least stick to(?) your own statement .

Then, as soon as the fifth article was opened, I suddenly discovered the advantages of the fourth article: although the whole article was inexplicable, for example, it was better to be firm and unequivocal in the statement A, but it was better to spend a long time criticizing method A and spending most of the article explaining B. How effective is the C method, and finally it comes down to A is the best method, but at least the whole article can be read , and although there is no citation, the sentence has a perfect rewrite (at least turnitin did not catch any similarities) place) .

Personally, I can't think of anything worse than the fifth article: the whole article is full of quotation marks, and it's all naked cut-and-paste sentences combined, but it's not really important, although he has contacted me to say that he Forgot to add citation, and resubmitted it again, but all citations are in the wrong way.

Of course, the fifth chapter is better than those who don't turn in their homework .

But when I changed 10 papers, I felt dizzy, and I couldn’t help but feel fortunate that half of the students in the class had not handed in their homework.

I chatted with the professor today, I am worried that I am giving too low, for example, the worst report is 63 points, etc. My husband who graduated from this university thinks that I am giving too low. If other TAs give too high, students may protest. Unexpectedly, the professor said that the average grades of freshman students are about C or C+. In fact, low grades are normal, and he completely trusts my judgment. I give as much as I can.

At this time, I always doubt the meaning of university education: the school treats the students as fat sheep, the professors don’t care about the students in the lecture hall at all, and then the students fall into the hands of a TA who can’t speak English well, and half of the people are just making excuses for themselves. skills, and then we never see anyone.

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