hazel_baby

Lmao. That's sad...

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I am a part time English teacher and I quite often write 'well done! a great effort' on pupils' work, particularly if they are dyslexic. I do not measure their achievement against everyone else's but against their own ability level. Having said that, of course, I do not hand out As very liberally as pupils need to know that sometimes, even their best is not going to be an A grade.

Edited to add thought - perhaps that's the first piece of work that guy had handed in? In which case, I as a teacher would be encouraging rather than dismissive, since if I point out how crap it is, he may never hand in another piece of work.

Jolly McJollyson

Yikes. I'd have hammered you haha. Not on the grammar, but there are some statements that are either WAY too sweeping or simply not expanded upon enough.

Still, take what you get.

Anarkos

I said "start of high school". If your schools are anything like those here, they'll steadfastly ignore teaching you basic grammar etc, but will, for the last three years, teach you the One True Way to write an essay. Trouble is, this one shining path to essay-godliness will change every single year.

Eventually, generally about a year into uni, you'll realise that most of what you were taught was bollocks, and develop your own approach and style.

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