[nabs-l] Grade deductions for visual mistakes

[Arielle Silverman]

Hi Kaley, In the professional world, formatting mistakes can cause a
lot of issues. We don't get more slack on these things just because we
are blind. So it would be good to start now on having your formatting
checked. You can either have a trusted sighted person help with this,
or read character by character. Speech software like JAWS may offer
you better formatting feedback than ZoomText and you can use the
Insert F command to hear a summary of your indentations, font etc.
Good luck!
Arielle

On 11/18/14, Helga Schreiber via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi Kaley. I think regarding this issue that you are having, I think you
> should talk to your professor about it since it is not your fault that you
> are making this visual mistakes. In fact, I think that some of you guys here
> will agre with me in this, I know that we really don't want to rely in
> sighted assistance when it comes to help us on the format of our papers in
> doing the formatting of them, but I think we should in some situations. In
> particular for me, when I do or write some kind of paper, I do all the
> formatting of it, but I usually ask one of my family members if they can
> help me check if I have the right formatting and if it looks like the
> Professor wants it. However, if they can't help me with that, I usually go
> to my writing center and ask a tutor if they can help me with the formatting
> of my paper. So have you tried to ask one of your sighted friends to help
> you with the formatting of your paper, or go to the writing center and ask
> one of the tutors to help you with the formatting before you turn it in to
> the Professor? I'm just wondering. Hope this help! Hope to hear from you
> soon. Thanks and God bless! :)
>
> Helga Schreiber
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>> On Nov 19, 2014, at 1:24 AM, kcj21 via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>      When writing a paper, I have Zoomtext Appreader read my paper aloud
>> and I use Spell Check. However, occasionally, there are small formatting
>> mistakes that I don't notice. Unfortunately, I usually get a slight grade
>> reduction for these visual mistakes. Once, I got points off because I had
>> two periods and recently, I lost a few points because my paragraph wasn't
>> indented, but it was definitely separated from the previous paragraph.
>> What do you guys do in these circumstances. Should I explain these visual
>> mistakes to my professor?
>>
>> Best,
>> Kaley
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