[nabs-l] Grade deductions for visual mistakes

[Carly Mihalakis]

Hi, Helga, and everyone,

How can we possibly do something that is so visual like format 
papers? I mean, don't we need sighted help? is that not a no-brainer?
CarAt 11:04 PM 11/18/2014, Helga Schreiber via nabs-l 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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