[nabs-l] Grade deductions for visual mistakes

[justin williams]

No, I do it all the time, and in order to work in the real world, you have
to do so.

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Carly Mihalakis
via nabs-l
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 2:27 AM
To: Helga Schreiber; National Association of Blind Students mailing list;
kcj21; National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Grade deductions for visual mistakes

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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