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I'm posting this to rant a little, but to also get some advice.

I'm in my last semester of nursing school and assignments are piling up one on top of the other. NOOO. Haha, anyway, I decided to take the time and get most of them done before/during Spring Break. One of the assignments is a reflection paper due at the end of this month.

I completed my paper and e-mailed it to my professor. Before the break he told us that if we wanted him to look over it for APA mistakes, we should send it to him in advance so he can help us with it. Taking his advice, I sent it to him, hoping to see a whole bunch of red marks when I got the paper back. I'm not bad at APA formatting, but I know he's very picky about it. When I get his revisions back, it's literally five comments that aren't elaborated on that much. I fix my mistakes and thank him for taking the time to look at it. I submit my finished paper and think, yay, hopefully I get an A.

WRONG.

SO WRONG.

I got an 89. So I'm here like . . . why? Did I do something wrong?

So I look on our little website thing to see his comments and he's uploaded the paper I submitted with new revisions.

:imstupid:

All of which dealt with APA.

So I'm sitting here like . . . . why mark so little when there were obviously more problems?

And then I saw a trend in the mistakes I had made. So then I'm like . . . obviously you realized this too? Why not just make ONE comment pointing out this trend and give me heads up to make me think, oh, I'm missing something here when I sent you my paper the first time.

I just . . . . I just.

I feel defeated because I did it early to get their feedback to get a good grade (a B isn't bad by any means but it makes me upset to know that I truly could have gotten an A if those mistakes were fixed).

 

I want to talk to the professor about it, but at the same time, I'm unsure if it would even help or if there is even a point.

I didn't expect him to point out every little thing (he said I had grammar mistakes as well, but he didn't mark them in the first revision), but if he realized I had consistently made the same mistake in APA formatting, wouldn't they want to point that out? It shows that I'm missing something in terms of formatting.

 

:rlytearpls: 

May please come quickly

 

 

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89 is the worst mark for overachievers, I can appreciate and relate. But hey, you're soon to graduate with a useful professional degree moreso than my Molecular Bio degree I got last year. Congratulations! You won't remember this mark in a few months I swear lol.

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89 is the worst mark for overachievers, I can appreciate and relate. But hey, you're soon to graduate with a useful professional degree moreso than my Molecular Bio degree I got last year. Congratulations! You won't remember this mark in a few months I swear lol.

 

Molecular Bio is nothing to scoff at! Congratulations :3

Aughhh, it is the worst. Just 1 point :rlytearpls:

Haha, I tried to tell myself that after remembering all of the grades I'd gotten that I swore were going to "end" me. I just need to let it go :._.:

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If it's really bugging you then it couldn't hurt to talk with the Professor.  I mean he said you could send him your paper in advance specifically to look over APA stuff so it wouldn't be like this is coming out of the blue or something.  I would just ask if he has a few minutes cause you wanted to talk about your paper and then explain yourself to him that you fixed the comments he had made on your first draft but noticed that there were other mistakes in the final paper that weren't marked and just ask in a nice and understanding way (not implying that you aren't nice and understanding already lol).

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If it's really bugging you then it couldn't hurt to talk with the Professor.  I mean he said you could send him your paper in advance specifically to look over APA stuff so it wouldn't be like this is coming out of the blue or something.  I would just ask if he has a few minutes cause you wanted to talk about your paper and then explain yourself to him that you fixed the comments he had made on your first draft but noticed that there were other mistakes in the final paper that weren't marked and just ask in a nice and understanding way (not implying that you aren't nice and understanding already lol).

 

 

You ask. Even the slightest chance of him fixing your grade might be done if you do that rather than the guaranteed nothing of worrying in silence.

 

Very true. Ah, I just have anxiety over questioning teachers over things like grading, but if I don't do anything, it'll just stay the same.

I think I'll ask him about it just to see what he says

:rlytearpls:  an A may be within reach

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Congratulations on being in your last semester. In my experience (for both my nursing and non nursing papers), is that the professors usually won't say much about trending mistakes. They want you to be in the habit of triple checking for formatting errors, especially if they have given you handouts, references, or any other material to help you format your paper correctly. It does seem unfair, but sometimes professors do this to ensure that you learn how to catch your own mistakes. It wouldn't hurt to speak to him about it though. 

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89 is the worst mark for overachievers, I can appreciate and relate. But hey, you're soon to graduate with a useful professional degree moreso than my Molecular Bio degree I got last year. Congratulations! You won't remember this mark in a few months I swear lol.

^true. Even if you do remember, you won't repeat the same mistake due to the trauma.

Congrats in advance for the upcoming graduation btw ^^

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