Frank/ Rui Wang
Writing Assignment
No.4
After carefully
finish reading this article, I really feel sympathetic for Amanda’s encounter
and is indignant about the grading system in RU which directly renders Amanda’s
final paper failed. Here, I will make a few comments about my feelings for
Amanda’s encounter.
About the grading
system in RU, I really think that it is inhumane. How can a grading system
understand a writer’s feeling precisely? How can a writer’s article be
corrected by a grading system that is less humane than being corrected
manually? How can we tell that the writer plagarizes only for his atricles’
partial similarity with the articles or webs in its database? The grading
system is so technological that it almost replaces manual grading which is the
most conventional way to grade a student’s paper. It is not difficult for us to
find that the bureaucratic policy in RU and the ‘hackneyed’ grading system
which has a fixed grading rubric according to the database in it which contains
numerous amount of books in different areas, all kinds of articles and
websites. The teacher just need to put the student’s article in this system and
all the grammatical mistakes and similarity to materials in its database will
appear on screen in conspicuous colors and then the teacher can easily give the
grade for the student’s paper according to the rubric. Technology advance is
great but can we use it in appropriate ways in order to make our life a little
bit more energetic not so mechanized and not make another Amanda appears?
About the
commenters who make comments about Amanda’s plagarism, what they said is utterly groundless since
they haven’t read Amanda’s final paper so that they are not even qualified to
comment on this case. What they do is just ‘go with the stream’ and what they
saw on the website is just the plagarism of Amanda in her final paper. They don’t
know what Amanda is intended to mean in her paper and their incessant ridiculing
and mocking comments on Amanda’s behavior finally rendered Amanda to be silent
and spare the keyboard to her father since she found that her innocence can
never be confirmed and she felt despaired about the comment made by people who
even don’t read her paper.So, these commenters are unreasonable and
unrationable.
To be honest, I am
really averse and disgusted with the automatically grading system’s replacement
of the manual grading. All I hope is people can take sensible use of the
technology in this modern society and not make another situation like this take
place.
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