Ewen Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 My wifes just going through a dissertation that her tutor has marked. Unbelievable, the quality of tutors in Uni at the moment. My wife has used the word 'speeches' several times in her piece...each time the tutor has crossed 'speeches' out and written 'speaches' in red with sp next to it. My wife used the word 'datum' as an alternative to the word 'fact'...the tutor has crossed this out and noted it as meaningless. The words 'extrapolation' 'accommodating' and 'antagonism' that my wife has written have been crossed out by her tutor and replaced with 'extraperlation', 'accommadating' and 'antaganism'. Theres more, but you get the drift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 I'd be straight in there and demand a meeting with both the tutor and the most senior person at the college/uni. Absolutely shocking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPRASUZUKI Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Sums up the value of a modern universtiy education quite nicely I reckon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelfill Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 I'm with the red one there. It's absalootly discussting. In all seriousness, I would want an explanation as to how the tutor is qualified to grade the dissertation given the errors. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jevansio Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 If anyone ever extraperlated my datums I'd give them a right old antaganism!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewen Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 If anyone ever extraperlated my datums I'd give them a right old antaganism!!! Thing is, said bi-degree'd () tutor is teaching media and film studies. Maybe I should have made that clear from the get-go.... Making allowances and all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creative Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Thing is, said bi-degree'd () tutor is teaching media and film studies. Maybe I should have made that clear from the get-go.... Making allowances and all that. sod making allowences. I'm also with red on this one. Get in there and sort out a meeting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraAyf Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 The words 'extrapolation' 'accommodating' and 'antagonism' that my wife has written have been crossed out by her tutor and replaced with 'extraperlation', 'accommadation' and 'antaganism'. Theres more, but you get the drift. That is unbelievable Ewen! The conventional teachers also seem to have problems with numbers as their 10% pay request far outstrips the 2.4% inflation prediction for the next 12-months. During an interview yesterday, a female teacher claimed that 10% would just about cover the cost of inflation - "eh"!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Thing is, said bi-degree'd () tutor is teaching media and film studies. Maybe I should have made that clear from the get-go.... Making allowances and all that.It's no excuse. Said tutor shouldn't be mis-correcting anything. Get the offending paperwork and a complaint into the department head asap. If that doesn't work send it in to the Echo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juanchan Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 I had to get my parents to have a chat with my English teacher when I was in year 7 at school. He'd made a big thing out of me spelling "author" incorrectly, yet I hadn't. He wanted to give me detention for "speaking back to a teacher" when I told him he was wrong That is unbelievable Ewen! The conventional teachers also seem to have problems with numbers as their 10% pay request far outstrips the 2.4% inflation prediction for the next 12-months. During an interview yesterday, a female teacher claimed that 10% would just about cover the cost of inflation - "eh"!!!!! Given some teachers have only had 1 or 2 pay rises in the last 5-6 years, I'd say 10% is not enough IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyT Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 You have gotta be takin' the p***(. Ewen. Also worringly, the sad individual can't use a spellchecker either. Take all evidence to the Uni boss and get the individual removed asap. Those standards do not belong in the system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Agreed, that is disgusting. I would be wanting some serious words with the department head, the master and whoever else is involved in the running of said uni. It doesn't matter what classes they are supposed to be teaching, a mastery of the English language should be a given. It does indeed go to show how badly the education standards have fallen in this country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_Mac Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Media Studies Eh? What a surprise... Not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl_S Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 My wifes just going through a dissertation that her tutor has marked. Unbelievable, the quality of tutors in Uni at the moment. My wife has used the word 'speeches' several times in her piece...each time the tutor has crossed 'speeches' out and written 'speaches' in red with sp next to it. My wife used the word 'datum' as an alternative to the word 'fact'...the tutor has crossed this out and noted it as meaningless. The words 'extrapolation' 'accommodating' and 'antagonism' that my wife has written have been crossed out by her tutor and replaced with 'extraperlation', 'accommadating' and 'antaganism'. Theres more, but you get the drift. Speach looks kind of right to me. Datum? Well, learn something everyday. Never heard that used before, I'm thinking it must be the singular for data? Must have been a high brow paper to use words like that? I trust shes not at oxbridge. That *would* be seriously worrying. Name and shame that uni! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Ha, that's funny, your wife can't spell. Or am I missing something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRX Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Ha, that's funny, your wife can't spell. Or am I missing something. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Media Studies Eh? What a surprise... Not! Quite, Mike, quite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannhauser Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 My wifes just going through a dissertation that her tutor has marked. Unbelievable, the quality of tutors in Uni at the moment. My wife has used the word 'speeches' several times in her piece...each time the tutor has crossed 'speeches' out and written 'speaches' in red with sp next to it. My wife used the word 'datum' as an alternative to the word 'fact'...the tutor has crossed this out and noted it as meaningless. The words 'extrapolation' 'accommodating' and 'antagonism' that my wife has written have been crossed out by her tutor and replaced with 'extraperlation', 'accommadating' and 'antaganism'. Theres more, but you get the drift. There is a bit of major extraperlating going on in the second sentence, seeing as 'the quality of tutors' is based on a sample of, er, one. That aside, I find this extraordinary. People who teach or lecture in Media tend to have a background in English Language/Literature. I would venture to guess that generally speaking, they are less likely to make such errors as, say, scientists. In fact, thinking on this further, most of the science graduates I know can't spell for toffee; the arts graduates tend to be more competent. It's highly age dependent, though. Media Studies picks up a lot of flak, but once again,there's no intrinsic reason why it should be easier or more difficult than most other subjects. It depends on how far you pursue it. Any subject can be challenging and esoteric at a high enough level. For example, I can imagine that an attempt to apply the ideas of Jacques Derrida (sp?) to a media context would be more than enough to boil the brain. We could try to find a bit of advanced media theory and post it on here. I'm sure that the same people that instantly dismiss it as a Mickey Mouse subject would instead instantly dismiss it as "airy-fairy b*ll*ks" that doesn't mean anything. So it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 It's all well and good you saying that - but what has it got to do with the quality of the tutors spelling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian R Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 The tutor will just say that she is dyslexic that seems to be a common excuse for people who can't spell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Then she shouldn't be correcting Janes work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonball Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Media Studies picks up a lot of flak, . Dont you mean 'flake'? ...gets coat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonball Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 I can perfectly understand your frustration... Unfortunately the system these days does mean that many HE establishments attempt to operate on the basis of hourly paid lecturing staff... These are sometimes very talented people, and sometimes not Perhaps your better half has experienced the latter Also some full time lecturers appear to be, quite frankly, just lazy. Having been cosseted in an almost 'jobs for life' environment with too much time on their hands they do not have any concept of what is happening out here, or understanding of the pressures of real world employment. Some don't even strike me as liking students... I have met some who are good communicators, and some who are so bad... By and large though - whilst the pay remains so low - academia will not attract the talent that will eventually oust those of poorer quality... which is what is required... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 I'm speachless. My tutor was a brilliant old school journalist, but then they teach writing in a different way anyway. How old is the tutor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannhauser Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Dont you mean 'flake'? ...gets coat You've lost me there, sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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