Exams are over. I have one paper left, which is well past due, but the professor for the course is a very giving soul. I actually feel like this morning’s exam, the one I was the most worried about, went the best of all the exams I’ve taken this week. The other two were completely wacked out, but that’s sort of typical for those classes.
I also got back my second paper in the class for which I had the exam this morning. I don’t know how the hell I got a ‘b’ on that. I had no bibliography. I literally ended one paragraph in the middle of a sentence with “1!@#$#T.” (that’s up there with including a intragroup editing comment from a draft of a paper I put into my writing sample for ‘developing your public service career’) There were somewhere between 10 and 20 typos, not including the above (plus a number of things the prof misidentified as a typo), and the structure was a bit off in places. Furthermore, it came off as descriptive rather than evaluative, a flaw I was aware of as I wrote it. It was about 2 parts descriptive to 1 part evaluative.
That having been said, it was a good analysis and critique of a regional economic development organization. If I were to correct the typos, finish the sentence, and reorder the necessary paragraph or 3, I’d be happy to include it in my writing portfolio. This is why people do rough and final drafts instead of writing their papers the night before, or the morning of, as the case may be. Heh.