[nabs-l] Grade deductions for visual mistakes

Wed Nov 19 09:51:29 UTC 2014

Good morning, Justin, and everyone,

On the one hand, blindness is framed as a "slight nuisance" and on 
the other, people seem to dawn a defensive posture upon something's 
even being believed to be a result of blindness. And yes, any writer 
will speak to having a pair of "fresh eyes" peruse their work. Read 
"Shitty First Draft" by anne lamott.
Car At 01:20 AM 11/19/2014, justin williams via nabs-l wrote:
>Also, people who are sighted get other people to read over their papers
>also.
>
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>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Grade deductions for visual mistakes
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>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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> > Member of National Federation of the Blind and Florida Association of
> > Blind Students.
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> >
> > "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that
> > whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John
> > 3:16 Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> 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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