Excerpt from page 3 of the Geography Term Paper Guidelines
(5) FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS ON FORM:
Proof-reading of all term papers is essential, primarily to catch substantive errors but also to check that form is acceptable, with regard to style, spelling, punctuation, grammar. ... minor errors may be overlooked but major shortcomings may well be penalised, since the marker may feel ... (b) that you will ultimately represent a bad advertisement for the department if you do not leave us substantially literate.
... Note also that all sentences are supposed to have at least one verb -- if yours do not, they may be quite unintelligible.
LOL. They also had a slightly snarky comment on how our markers aren't moonlighting as English profs.
In other news, this paper is so hard to just get over with.
Proof-reading of all term papers is essential, primarily to catch substantive errors but also to check that form is acceptable, with regard to style, spelling, punctuation, grammar. ... minor errors may be overlooked but major shortcomings may well be penalised, since the marker may feel ... (b) that you will ultimately represent a bad advertisement for the department if you do not leave us substantially literate.
... Note also that all sentences are supposed to have at least one verb -- if yours do not, they may be quite unintelligible.
LOL. They also had a slightly snarky comment on how our markers aren't moonlighting as English profs.
In other news, this paper is so hard to just get over with.