Well the semester has ended but now I have to actually read all the papers I collected. The final presentation today was painful, poorly conceived and with almost no organization. Although I could see what was in her head as she presented it, none of that “planning” made it to the way she actually thought about the paper. It was such a sad and ordinary problem – all the folks who want to go on the last day of presentations do so because their work is poor in every way. Poorly conceptualized, poorly written, poorly presented. All kinds of problems in every crevice of the presentation: Powerpoints that don’t work, movie clips badly selected and improperly imported, written portions of the presentation that make little sense, speeches with large words that don’t even begin to mean what the presenter thinks they mean. The first day, when the people brave enough to go early and first – that’s the day to hear presentations. I detest grading papers.
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