" particularly since the use of the surname only is a standard academic and
journalistic convention..."
Is it? - couldn't find any reference to Marx in my copy of the Sun so
checked a copy the Higher and they used both names of people on the front
page article I looked at - maybe that's just a case of falling standards
David Andrew
16 December, 2002, 4:05
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-----Original Message-----
From: The Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Fin Mcmorran
Sent: 16 December 2002 15:43
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Subject: Re: marking
particularly since the use of the surname only is a standard academic and
journalistic convention...
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From: Edwards R M (CeLL) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 16 December 2002 15:31
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Subject: Re: marking
Nic,
I am judging this issue solely on your brief description, of course, but
this sounds absolutely ludicrous!
It seems that the marker you describe is actually deducting 10 marks from a
total mark if the student's work contains text such as "Marx's views were
based on his concern for social justice ...", but would not deduct any marks
if it contained "Karl Marx's views were based on his concern for social
justice ...". Is this really correct?
In my opinion there can be only one justification for such an absurd
practice, and that is that the students have been explicitly told, "You will
lose 10 marks every time you refer to Marx as Marx, and not Karl Marx."
Any other justification must be a cruel and immoral joke.
Robert
Robert Edwards
Combined Studies Academic Tutor
Centre for Lifelong Learning
University of Glamorgan
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From: Nic Groombridge [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 16 December 2002 12:55
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Subject: marking
I'm doing a lot of marking like most colleagues at the moment but have come
across - not at my Institution - some very steep gradients in a marking
scheme. That is in a journalism exercise with one hundred points at stake
the marker has taken 10 marks off for each failure to mention a first name
(of Marx, Gramsci and Weber!) so reducing the student's mark by 30 points to
26.
I have made it clear to the marker that I don't believe any such scheme can
be justified but am having difficulty laying my hands on something other
than my own feelings about such marking.
nic groombridge
st mary's college
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