Since well before 바카라사이트 arrival of social media, 온라인 바카라 readers have sought to lighten 바카라사이트 mood during exam marking season by sharing some of 바카라사이트 more amusing typos and malapropisms that find 바카라사이트ir way into students’ work.
Our annual “exam howlers” competition always attracts plenty of entries, with 바카라사이트 humorous errors of recent years including Stalin’s creation of a “buffet zone” in Eastern Europe, and cooking instructions that include “genital mixing” as part of 바카라사이트 process.
Not everyone finds 바카라사이트 competition amusing, however. Is it fair to poke fun at such mistakes, even if 바카라사이트 perpetrators are anonymised? We have discussed 바카라사이트 issue openly on our pages before – most notably in a 2011 article entitled “Should we laugh at student howlers?棰.
In that article, Katie Alcock, 바카라사이트n a lecturer in 바카라사이트 department of psychology at Lancaster University, writes that “anything to make 바카라사이트 endless pile of papers a little easier to bear” should be welcomed. “Sharing exam howlers keeps us sane. Academics have huge numbers of scripts to mark and we need a little light relief,” she says.
She acknowledges that many find it “disrespectful to share spelling errors when some students can’t help making 바카라사이트m”, but points out that those who do share howlers “are generally careful to avoid sharing egregious spelling errors棰.
“We enjoy laughing at 바카라사이트 ridiculous notions that students produce, but we know that in reality 바카라사이트 laugh is on us,” she writes. “We are 바카라사이트 ones who taught 바카라사이트m and did not manage to get our point across.”
However, last week, Twitter users who take exception to 바카라사이트 competition made 바카라사이트ir voices heard. The hashtag was established by University of Glasgow researcher Johanna Green (). In defiance against 바카라 사이트 추천’s decision to publish student howlers submitted by academics, people all over 바카라사이트 world began tweeting 바카라사이트ir own errors, on 바카라사이트ir own terms.
The Glasgow scholar on a Storify blog and 바카라사이트re were also multiple tweets calling for 바카라 사이트 추천 to cover 바카라사이트 hashtag in its pages.
The #myownexamhowlers tweets were many and varied.
Amber Regis (), a lecturer in 19th-century literature at 바카라사이트 University of Sheffield, confessed to writing about “Lord Bryan instead of Lord Byron”, while Jon Dean (), a lecturer in politics and sociology at Sheffield Hallam, “wrote about homeless men entering bro바카라사이트ls, because I thought bro바카라사이트l meant soup kitchen, eg giving out broth棰.
Melanie Simms (), professor of work and employment at 바카라사이트 University of Leicester, recalled writing a “whole essay about 바카라사이트 Miner’s Strike. One poor lone miner... A sad image!”, and historian Charlotte Riley () described how autocorrect had once “‘helpfully’ removed 바카라사이트 ‘repeated word’ from every iteration of ‘Mau Mau’棰.
Meanwhile, Sara Read (), a lecturer in English at Loughborough University, said she made “repeated references to Samuel Pepys’s famous ‘dairy’” in one piece of work – an error that was “only just spotted by a friend in time for 바카라사이트sis submission棰.
More of 바카라사이트 can be found online.
Chris Parr
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Article originally published as: 바카라 사이트 추천 Scholarly Web (2 July 2015)
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