Coda to the Essay Saga...

Just received another email today:

Dear Alphonsus,

In light of your advice this morning and, given that you have not had the benefit of the "Writing about Music" subject in Semester 1, your mark has been adjusted to 68. We both think this is fair: it is still in our view an H3 level essay, so this modification maintains fairness across the whole class while recognising your own particular circumstances.

John Griffiths

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What happened prior to this: (continuation of the email from the previous entry)

Dear Professor John,

Thank you for your reply and looking into my essay seriously. After reading the detailed comments given by Shelley and your input in this email, I am satisfied with the outcome and am also assured that my essay is carefully reexamined. I am also particularly pleased with the helpful pointers given in the detailed comments by Shelley. Meanwhile, I just need to add that I am a mid-semester entry student and have yet to do 'Writing about Music' from Semester 1.

Thank you for taking time off your busy schedule to look into this matter. I apologise for any inconvenience caused during the process and also would like to thank Shelley for her detailed comments.

Kind Regards,
Alphonsus

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Really dramatic. If I were to summarise the entire story, this is the brief outline below:

Student got back essay result.
Student not happy with the result he got and question his results, putting in strong words in the process.
Professor replies, saying the result still stand, but given a list of comments talking about the good points and bad points, and some referal to some notes which student have not done it before.
Student acknowledges his fate and accepted his marks.
Professor replied again, increasing the marks slightly in acknowledgement of the fact that student didnt take a subject about essay writing in Semester 1.
Student lives happily ever after (though slightly).

What a dramatic end to the last day and week of school. =)

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Our Heavenly Father is great after all, isn't he? He is the fairest of all... =)