Professors that take forever to grade your papers.

emerlus
Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:31:46 +0000

I think it’s reasonable to expect real paper with readable work…
Personally, I think in many cases there are good reasons for the professor to take so long. They have to grade a lot more essays than you have to write. And small humanities classes take longer to grade because it’s one professor doing it versus multiple TAs. Sometimes I do kind of wonder (I turned in an annotated bib weeks ago and the prof has still not finished…not sure what she’s doing.) But another prof I have has been slow because she is on the committee to hire a new professor and is the advisor for four honors thesis. So I don’t really blame her. They are busy people; give them a break.