My thoughts on grading in English 250

This is most certainly late as far as when Victor wanted us to post, but now that I found my login information I think I should give my take on grading. If anything, I feel that I have a better perspective now that we have talked about it. Initially, I was not very happy with how grading was done in this class. Maybe it was that I was confident in my writing, or maybe it was the fact I've never had a  terribly difficult time in English, but I was most certainly flustered.

Being an Engineering major, most of my classes revolving around math, programming, and more math. I was excited to have this class, and I was expecting something where I wouldn't have to put in quite as much work. With Assignment 1, I think I took this to the extreme. Not to say I didn't put effort into it, but I didn't go back and go through the guidelines and analyze my work to see if I met the expectations.

I was initially flustered with my grade, and to be honest, I was even more so after our discussion in class. I've never struggled in English, and have almost always received and A in the class. Furthermore, I've never seen a grade distribution like we had in an English class. It seemed like Victor was grading much tougher than he needed to, or at least to what I was used to. After class I actually went back and read some of the comments from my essay and realized how poor my assignment was. I attribute most this to not reviewing it, as I felt like I could "just whip one out" after writing a fairly decent summary for our first preassignment.

I'm not sure I can put much on here that we haven't discussed in class, but I think the most I can take out of this  is that I need to take more responsibility for my writing. I do think that we as a class needed to discuss the grading policy, especially with this being Victors first time teaching English 250. I think we have been very productive in that aspect, however, this is not my first English class, and I need to take more responsibility for my writing so that I can receive the grade I want.