Yesterday in my forensic science class our group paper was due. Me and three other girls had worked on this paper together; it was about the book Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders. Anyway, I wouldn't say the book was a great read but the case was. It's a pretty messed up case about two stupid teenage boys murdering two professors in their own home just to end up stealing 300 or so dollars. Can you say fucked up? Geez.
Anyway, so for this paper each one of us had a section to write about. One worked on a summary about the book, the other one work about the forensic evidence (me), another wrote about forensic technologies, and lastly one wrote about the case and verdict. We were to send all of our parts to the leader of the group so that she could put everything together cohesively and so it would sound like one person wrote it.
I had asked to send me the paper after she had finished putting the pieces together so that I could go over it for a proofread. Do you know what she ended up doing? She just stuck them all together without changing anything. I just rolled my eyes and took it upon myself to make the paper flow better. I ended up sending her the paper back with a ton of comments. I didn't change them myself on the paper so that she could see what I was talking about. And so that she could get a better idea as to why I said to change the shit that needed changing.
Anyway, she sent back the paper with most of the changes done, but for some reason or another she didn't change a few of the grammatical errors that I had highlighted. I was like, "WTH? Those were easy to change and you can obviously see that the wrong form of there is being used." I end up going through the paper again and I find a few more errors; grammatical and format wise, which I highlighted and sent back a second time. I think by this point she was becoming irritated by the fact that I kept trying to correct her editing because she sent out what she called the "final copy" and said that she was going to print this one out and take it to class. I'm sure you can all guess by now that she didn't chance the shit that I suggested she change.
I was seriously pissed. What the hell, man! This paper is supposed to be a group paper where we all get the same fucking grade and I don't want to be docked points for stupid grammatical errors.
I ended up printing out a copy of the paper with the errors fixed and was intent on turning in the paper I had printed out. But she had gotten to class earlier than I had and had already turned in the stupid ass paper. I was freaken livid. I asked in class if she had fixed the errors and she went into some rant about, "Oh ya, I changed a few things." I was like, "Was the paper you turned the last copy you sent as an email." And of course she said yes.
I wanted to go up to the professor and take back the other paper she had turned in and turned in the one I had fixed. I mean seriously in the one that she turned in she misspelled Dartmouth, left in phrases that I told her made no sense in the paper, still refused to change there to their, and the last two paragraphs of the paper made no fucken sense whatsoever! Oh and she didn't state references for some of the facts given in the last paragraph, so if the professor wants to be a real stickler he can get us on plagiarism. How awesome is that!?!
I should have stood up for my grade, but right I just want to get the paper back and say, "See I told you, fucktard!" Ugh. I hate working in groups sometimes.
Have you guys ever had a situation like this? Let me know in the comments. Sorry for the long-winded rant which I'm sure probably has grammatical errors in and of itself too. But at least I'm willing to change them!!! >:[
2 comments:
I have many situations like this! Here are some:
I worked in a group where it was 2 girls & 2 guys. The guys were lazy ass mofos so the other girl & I ended up doing the whole project alone. The good thing is that the teacher wanted each person to submit a paper that stated how we graded everyone's participation on the project. So, I hope that the lazy turds at least got docked points. I wish they would have gotten a big fat zero!!!
Another time I was in a group where one person was in charge of putting the paper & presentation together like you were. We all submitted our parts, the person put it together & we kept making changes to our presentation parts during the course of a few days. So, by the night before our presentation, I emailed my final proofread part, memorized my speech, & went to bed feeling confident of my presentation. I knew all there was to know on the part I did. :) Little did I know that the retard putting the presentation together NEVER updated my part & had the old slides I had submitted. So, by the time I got to do my presentation, my chart was all wrong, it made no sense. The good thing was that I knew what I was talking about so everyone obviously knew that the person in charge of putting the presentation together messed up b/c I made sure of saying out loud, "This isn't the right charts" The chart looked like this & I started drawing it on the board. It helped with my points apparently b/c I got a decent grade on it.
You should have waited until the end of class after everyone left to ask your teacher if it was ok for you to swap the paper she submitted with the one you had & explain why. Now you'll be stuck with whatever grade you ALL get. :(
I have yet to experiance that. I have worked in groups and so far so good. What did you end up getting on it?
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