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Jonathon · « **Reply #1500 on:** July 05, 2015, 10:53:06 AM »

I'm editing a department self-study report, and I keep running into stuff like this:

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Measures of Success: The ability to produce a report that will illustrate a percentage of knowledge/learning gained (from pre and post-assessment) through having taken courses in four discipline areas (Math, English, Languages, and Science). All courses in these four disciplines will have pre and post-assessments developed and deployed, and a goal for percent of knowledge/learning increase will have an established baseline and goal for each course and for the four disciplines.

Our measure of success is not the report itself, but merely the ability to produce one? The goal will have an established baseline? The goal for percent of knowledge/learning increase will have a goal for each course?

dkw · « **Reply #1501 on:** July 05, 2015, 03:56:40 PM »

Somebody put the actual paragraph in a blender and that was the result.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1502 on:** July 06, 2015, 10:16:58 AM »

That seems to be the most reasonable explanation.

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #1503 on:** July 10, 2015, 12:16:10 PM »

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Training on coaching involves goal-setting, empowering and inspiring their people

Do any of those words mean anything in the real world?

dkw · « **Reply #1504 on:** July 10, 2015, 06:26:30 PM »

Is the sentence about soccer?

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #1505 on:** July 10, 2015, 10:07:02 PM »

It had nothing to do with coaching at all. I have no idea where the coaching came from.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1506 on:** July 20, 2015, 03:40:52 PM »

More gems from our self-study:

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Within the department’s operations section the customer support team, comprised of 12 full-time employees and 94 student employees, interactions between students and the department are handled (enrollment counseling, registration assistance, providing course materials, answering basic questions and questions about department policies and procedures, overseeing exam and proctoring, resolving technical support issues).

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Also within operations there are 8 full-time employees, 17 part-time employees, and 17 independent contractors that market the courses and program, manage enrollments – including promotion, advertising, public relations, and customer-partner relationships.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1507 on:** July 20, 2015, 09:09:03 PM »

I judge them harshly in the sentencing.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1508 on:** July 20, 2015, 09:52:52 PM »

I don't really understand how college-educated people who work at a friggin' university can write so badly. Those aren't even complete sentences!

Jonathon · « **Reply #1509 on:** July 21, 2015, 12:19:26 PM »

It just won't stop.

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In short, as the course is built teachers plan into the assessments possible answers responses that discriminate as to whether or not the student knows the correct answer from, and as well as distracting answers possibilities. The distracting answer possibilities are used as and provide meaningful instructor guidance to clarify commonly misunderstood concepts, wrong answers, and poor responses.

rivka · « **Reply #1510 on:** July 21, 2015, 03:12:53 PM »

Speaking of distracting answers . . . .

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1511 on:** July 22, 2015, 04:37:51 AM »

Was that written by a non-native speaker?

Jonathon · « **Reply #1512 on:** July 22, 2015, 07:55:13 AM »

Yes, it was written by a business major.

(Okay, so I don't actually know that.)

rivka · « **Reply #1513 on:** July 22, 2015, 07:57:58 AM »

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #1514 on:** July 22, 2015, 11:07:33 AM »

I just realized that the one client who I have the most headaches with is a micromanager. Things are all starting to fall into place. I made this realization when the most recent change he requested was a change to the wording on a slide - the wording that an editor, you know the editor in the editing department who edits, had suggested we use. So it's not just my job he feels more qualified to do.

rivka · « **Reply #1515 on:** August 05, 2015, 08:21:36 PM »

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its'

*wallbash*

Jonathon · « **Reply #1516 on:** August 07, 2015, 10:23:25 AM »

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Fraud is illegal and it is against the law.

But is it also unlawful?

Jonathon · « **Reply #1517 on:** August 07, 2015, 10:28:38 AM »

Quote from: rivka on August 05, 2015, 08:21:36 PM

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its'

*wallbash*

Next time, try bashing the offending party into the wall. It's much more effective AND more satisfying.

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #1518 on:** August 07, 2015, 11:50:11 AM »

Quote from: Jonathon on August 07, 2015, 10:23:25 AM

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Fraud is illegal and it is against the law.

But is it also unlawful?

rivka · « **Reply #1519 on:** August 07, 2015, 12:15:04 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on August 07, 2015, 10:28:38 AM

Next time, try bashing the offending party into the wall. It's much more effective AND more satisfying.

Sadly, it is also unlawful.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1520 on:** August 07, 2015, 12:32:06 PM »

Dang it.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1521 on:** August 11, 2015, 12:26:58 PM »

One of the editors just changed "mother-son, father-daughter, and father-son dyads" to "mother-son, father-daughter, and father-son dads".

rivka · « **Reply #1522 on:** August 11, 2015, 02:47:00 PM »

:facepalm:

Jonathon · « **Reply #1523 on:** August 11, 2015, 02:55:06 PM »

I will never understand the tendency of some editors to think, "I don't know that word—it must be wrong."

rivka · « **Reply #1524 on:** August 11, 2015, 03:43:07 PM »

Yeah, and how hard is it to look it up? Or just Google it?