Centophobia.

I'm a little annoyed. And because I have still got one assignment and one exam to go, I thought I would come here and vent so that I can continue to concentrate.

Just had my latest economics assignment returned. I received 10 out of 20 or a four. And my lovely tutor (he really is lovely, he is just a genious and anal) wrote all over the thing: I used first person in an essay (Oh my god!), changed the margins (sorry for trying to save the environment and money on the extravagant price of printing at uni), didn't format and name my graphs satisfactorily and I used a contraction (obviously there were other things wrong with the essay to receive a four but I knew about those). I just wish the university would figure out how it would like us to write reports and essays (and decide on ONE referencing system).

I have completed communication subjects in the CI faculty for which the lecturers have suggested that using first person in an essay is quite okay, as long as it is still professional sounding. And every second journal article I read has first person; it actually makes them a shit load easier to read. Which I happen to think is quite important! Anyway, it DID say in the guidelines that third person was to be used and that contractions aren't, BUT I didn't read those because I write about 20 essays every bloody semester.

Moral of the story: it pays to think about the faculty in which you are handing in an assignment, before writing it and taking into account how they think an essay or report should be formatted. I am frustrated but without a good reason and no one to be annoyed at except myself.

Anyway… until next time.