Email from college or professor

[Anonymous]

I have been trying to keep up with the grading for the last three weeks so that you will all know where you stand in the course as far as your points. What has amazed me is the number of grammatical errors, and the amount of misspelled words in your homework assignments. I am appalled at how carelessly the class, as a whole, have written words that are misspelled and those of you who are jumping into the assignments without reading the ebook or watching the video's provided.
You are in college now! It is unacceptable to hand in work with misspelled words, grammatical errors, and sentences that do not make sense. Reread your work prior to hitting that submit button. Do not think that because this is an on line course that proper academic English is not a requirement. I have been very lenient on these errors, but no more after this week. I will expect you to read the ebook and watch the videos prior to submitting an assignment. I also expect, from now to the end of this class, no misspelled words in any of your work.

[Anonymous]

Seems reasonable.

[Anonymous]

This should go without saying, but it clearly doesn't.

My problem is that "video's" is not punctuated correctly. WTF!

[Anonymous]

I found three errors

[Anonymous]

I am a professor.

It is extremely off-putting when students do not even spell check or read over their assignments before turning them in. Like they cannot be bothered. It seems so lazy and lax.

I wish they took pride in everything they put their name on.

[Anonymous]

It’s riddled with bad grammar - the “video’s” is the least of it.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I see a few errors and can appreciate the irony. Therefore, you have to wonder how bad the submitted assignments are to warrant this email. I’m guessing they don’t reflect the course’s chapters at all and are written informally, like texting. What the professor is seeing must be really bad. (I’m also guessing this isn’t an English course.)

[Anonymous]

I'd like to go back to the days of these complaints. Many of my students are having grammarly essentially write their work, and they don't even realize it because they think that using grammarly is just a "help," and, therefore, not even question whether this is their writing. They all sound like generic scholarly essays that are full of hot air because they don't really read the assignments well enough either! I've had to contact so many, freak them out with AI plagiarism talk and get them to roll it back. Almost grateful to see misspellings because they are an indication that the work is authentic.

As for content, I make it clear from the beginning that points are earned by utilizing info from the readings. It's in the prompt and the rubric. So, no need to chide there.

I think with today's students, this email will just antagonize them, sadly. And some will catch that possessive/plural error.

[Anonymous]

Suspect errors were included intentionally to highlight the issue. Professor has a reasonable expectation and should grade appropriately based on effort made by the student to produce a quality product.

[Anonymous]

I suspect the errors were typos born of frustration and resulting from sending before proofreading, also a result of frustration. And sure, it’s not a great look to complain about spelling and grammar errors while making errors yourself, but there’s a very big deference between an overly hasty email to students and a sloppy essay handed in for a grade in college.

[Anonymous]

The misuse of amount instead of number is like nails on a chalkboard.

[Anonymous]

Source, OP?

[Anonymous]

My 11th is in a dual enrollment community college online anthropology class. He was shocked to see some students submit work that was so sloppy. They replied on canvas without proofreading anything. It is so easy to write the response on google docs so you can check spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Then copy and submit on the canvas discussion post.

He showed me some responses and it really was surprising. Clearly students had read the require reading nor watched the required video.

[Anonymous]

The sentiments are extremely valid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd like to go back to the days of these complaints. Many of my students are having grammarly essentially write their work, and they don't even realize it because they think that using grammarly is just a "help," and, therefore, not even question whether this is their writing. They all sound like generic scholarly essays that are full of hot air because they don't really read the assignments well enough either! I've had to contact so many, freak them out with AI plagiarism talk and get them to roll it back. Almost grateful to see misspellings because they are an indication that the work is authentic.

As for content, I make it clear from the beginning that points are earned by utilizing info from the readings. It's in the prompt and the rubric. So, no need to chide there.

I think with today's students, this email will just antagonize them, sadly. And some will catch that possessive/plural error.

You do realize that everyone needs to adapt to generative AI, yes? My kid is at a top school and 1/2 his classes REQUIRE use of ChatGPT and 1/2 are old school professors. My kid assures me that probably by next year 100% of classes will use chatGPT in some fashion because the working world demands it.

There was an article in the WSJ today that nearly every MBA program is now incorporating chatGPT into their curricula. Basically, they are telling students to use chatGPT to write "boiler plate" parts of a business plan and then student reviews and edits, and take original ideas and feed it into chatGPT and let it help fill in the blanks and make the thoughts punchier more concise.