I often think that marking is the nemesis of all teachers. We set work that is challenging, supportive and will help students learn and advance towards their primary goals. The only down side of this carefully thought out activity is that we have to then mark the bloody stuff.
I have just finished a marathon four days marking 45 essays, all on the same theme, all using identical sources. This is because the lazy sods only used the limited web sites and books I recommended as a starting point, no-one thought to find any additional material.
Because of this I end up marking 45 identical essays, one after the other, slowly losing the will to live. The only relief comes when students make some "howler" mistake and brighten the day.
I will be including notes at a later date of some of the best of these that I have come across over the years.
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