Phoenix.Lillicarnage said:
»Hate my European History online teacher sooooo much right now. He marked me off 10 points total (5 each) for:
I didn't put my word count (min 200) on the top of my response to another persons essay post, I had 233 words, but just didn't label it for his ease so I lost 5 points.
I didn't put the original poster's name in my response. It is a threaded forum so the title of the post is in my RE: already, and it is nested under the original post so I didn't think it was necessary to say "HEY DAVE I READ YOUR ESSAY BRO" but I guess it is. Bam, minus 5 points.
The word count thing is part of proper labeling. It's just part of your header, like name, date, class, teacher is.
The second thing he took off for is a bunch of ***though. I'd point out to him that it's not your fault that he is too ignorant to realize the forum automatically does such a thing and there is no reason to say you're replying to someone when it already shows who you are replying to. Tell him to use a little *** common sense and actually look at everything.
Could throw in something like this as well. "Hey teacher, I'm replying to you now. Just thought I'd let you know that this response is to you. I know it has who I'm responding to in the header and not to mention it's a nested forum, but I just really thought you should be 100% sure I was replying to you so here I am replying to you." "Rest of response goes here."