[nabs-l] Grade deductions for visual mistakes

[justin williams]

There is nothing wrong with getting someone to reread your paper, but 99
percent of the formatting proofing and spelling mistakes you really should
catch your self.

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From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Helga Schreiber
via nabs-l
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 2:04 AM
To: kcj21; National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Grade deductions for visual mistakes

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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