Timeline for How to respond to a student email demanding quick feedback?
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Oct 31 at 13:15 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @Significance I edited my answer to reflect your sentiments. I felt that the student's efforts should still be recognized so I left the first sentence. | |
Oct 31 at 13:14 | history | edited | MonkeyZeus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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Oct 31 at 13:02 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @Significance Additionally, "we are still on track for a fortnightly feedback turnaround" is a nod to nicely stating "don't wait on me, deal with it" | |
Oct 31 at 13:01 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @Significance I guess it's up to OP to decide whether they wish to play "therapist" and delve into the root cause of the student's anxiety or if they wish to ignore it and expect steadfast obedience from the students. I don't have a master's degree so I have no idea about the norm at this level of academia. From what I can surmise, professors are "bending the knee" more often these days. | |
Oct 31 at 6:25 | comment | added | Significance | My reading was that the student was simply anxious and prefers to gauge the OP’s expectations before starting the next essay. I made the same mistake of waiting unnecessarily for feedback on a previous assessment before starting an assignment in primary school, and was set straight by my teacher then. (I remember it vividly because it felt unfair at the time, but I did learn the lesson). | |
Oct 31 at 4:23 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @Significance It is ambiguous, to me at least, as to why the student's second essay hinges on feedback from the first. Does each essay build upon the previous? Is the student merely trying to gauge OP's grading style/expectations so they can cater an essay to OP? Telling the student to not wait seems about as effective as telling someone to "stop being mad". There seems to be something about the curriculum structure which makes it disadvantageous to wait a fortnight for feedback. | |
Oct 31 at 1:03 | comment | added | Significance | This is a very good answer except that it encourages the idea that the student shouldn’t start the second essay before they have feedback from the first. I’d keep the rest but remove the first sentence and instead include the line, “please don’t wait before starting your second essay.” | |
Oct 30 at 14:36 | comment | added | CrimsonDark | Great answer. It doesn't buy in to the push for a super-fast response but it does this without being rude or punitive, it repeats the earlier advice about a two-week turnaround, and indicates, through the first sentence, that you did read the whole of the student's email. | |
Oct 30 at 11:46 | history | answered | MonkeyZeus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |