[nabs-l] Grade deductions for visual mistakes

justin williams justin.williams2 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 09:20:19 UTC 2014


Also, people who are sighted get other people to read over their papers
also.

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From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Arielle
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Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 2:17 AM
To: Helga Schreiber; National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Grade deductions for visual mistakes

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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