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Students typically do not understand the process involved in the marking of their papers. A comment often made is something like, “I put a lot of effort into writing this paper, but I was given a poor grade.” The problem with this comment is that what one person thinks of as a lot, another does not. In any event, writing a paper is always time consuming and difficult. Students often do not fully appreciate this, and think that simply because they put time and effort into writing a paper, it should be given a good grade. A paper is marked on the basis of what is presented, not how much time and effort was involved.
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Smyth, T.R. (2004). Marking Papers. In: The Principles of Writing in Psychology. Macmillan Study Skills. Red Globe Press, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-20886-5_26
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