She logs into the online system.
Clicks on the class she wants to access.
She clicks into the Dropbox area.
She sighs.
She clicks on the bottom of the list of papers,
the first student to upload his/her paper.
The iMac asks if it's okay to open the thing.
She clicks, "Open."
After making the view 200%, she sits back.
Crosses her arms.
The TITLE is interesting; it's different than others she's read.
And she's read a lot. A lot. Seriously. A lot.
The INTRO has one spelling error, but she overlooks it.
Then suddenly...
the word YOU is everywhere.
The QUOTATION MARK has been taken hostage.
And where the heck did the INFO come from? Outer space?
The aliens in her student's head told him/her to write it?
She sighs again, but heavily.
Clicks over to the Comments area.
Copies & pastes the issue.
Displays the deduction, although it pains her to do so.
Thank gawd for the RUBRIC; it's there to back up those crappy decisions.
She reads the rest of it, defeated.
The student knows better. The student is smarter than this.
Didn't they read the handout? Did she not make the handout clear enough?
At the end of the paper, the WORKS CITED page is a hodge-podge.
Of different fonts and odd punctuation.
At least he/she tried, she thinks.
The grade is placed; Save & Close is clicked.
She opens the next paper.
And sighs.
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