How do i handle this problem: my teacher's assistant grades my papers and gives me low scores.?

Question

She crosses out entire lines in my paragraphs. whole sentences are marked out and she replaces it with one word and makes other corrections in my paragraphs. basically, she makes it say something that is her opinion of what it should be and completely changes what i intended to say in my paper. she is from taiwan and we can barely understand what she says when she talks. how can she presume to be better able to write the paper when she barely knows the language? i don't want to insult her, but shes messing with my grade in the class. any suggestions?

Answer 1

talk with the teacher

bring your paper with you

point out places on you paper where she marked but you don't necessarily agrees with her (don't forget to give your reasons)

Explain why you believe that this isn't fair for your GPA

good luck

Answer 2

She is a teacher's assistant, which you are not, so just because she is from Taiwan, don't assume that she doesn't know what she is doing.  An accent doesn't mean that she doesn't have good control of the language, and you are insulting her if you do make that assumption.  Crossing out lines and sentences is appropriate in grading papers.  I've been teaching for 30 years, and I often find that students write too expansively and whole sentences can be replaced with a single word.  She has the right to do this.

On the other hand, if you really feel that by editing your papers, she changes the meaning, you might want to set up a meeting with your teacher.  Don't focus on the grades, and don't focus on the fact that the assistant has an accent, but bring in a lot of examples of corrections she has done which changed your meaning and which you feel were wrong.

Answer 3

ahh so dat is ur prob..try to ask if what will be the problem why is it that thE assintant of your teacher  gave you a low grade??try ask also for the class record if it is true that ur grade is low!!!

Answer 4

It is probably write because she is asain duh. stupid. do not question the asain way. and your writing was probably wrong. duh

Answer 5

well, you definitely cannot let this happen. if you need to talk to the teacher about it. or if you want you can talk to the principal or have ur parents do something about it. if its just a student teacher and she wont be there for long then just deal with it until the end, but you should talk with one of them.

Good Luck

~hope this helps