Monday 20 January 2015 XXXOPVTFDPVLt ZPSLOPVTFt!ZPSLOPVTFt!ZPSLOPVTF Sponsored by Est. 1964 NouseGuardian Student Publication of the Year Runner Up 2014 ‘Free Beer’ at the Norman Rea Gallery s Page 9 Snapchat Ban Cameron’s Orwellian clampdown Comment P11 Wild Things Marmosets and tooth- brush massages Features M22 Vinyl York We drop the beat on town’s top record shops Music M14 A Tech Portrait Why Nick Gentry paints on floppy disks Arts M9 Anger over ‘sarcastic’ English feedback t Markers’ comments denounced as vague and unconstructive t One student left on the verge of tears Rosemary Collins their average for previous modules that I slaved over for weeks, I was the one piece of written feedback books. So surely the one bit of feed- NEWS REPORTER and that little feedback was given incensed by the feedback I received. we get all term, I would expect more back we get should take more than on the essays. “There were two comments than a couple of illegible comments five minutes to write? It makes me A NUMBER OF second and third- Many students said feedback written on my essay, both of which and a very vague conclusive line of wonder what we pay for.” year English students have criti- that was given was written in illeg- were not only illegible but left me ‘this essay could benefit from being James Fellows, a second-year cised the feedback they were given ible handwriting, with some being with no knowledge of how to im- written from a wider perspective’. student, said: “I didn’t receive any after receiving the marks for their incorrectly criticised for spelling prove. Many of my friends’ com- “While the scientific courses are written annotation on my essay. open exam essays on Wednesday. mistakes or including inaccurate ments were also unhelpful and paying the same amount as us and All I got was a circle around where Complaints posted on Facebook quotations. some even demeaning and sarcastic. receiving 20-30 hours of contact a I didn’t reference a quote correctly. groups for English students at the Rosie May Bird Smith, a sec- “I’m not someone to kick up week, lab materials [and] books... The comments from the cover sheet University included that the marks ond-year English student, told a fuss, but when I’m paying nine we get a limited seven hours a should have been followed up with they’d received were lower than Nouse: “After getting my essay back grand a year for my education, on week and have to purchase our own Continued on Page 3 NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.nouse.co.uk Tuesday 20 January 2015 2 www.ey.com/uk/careers News Nouse A note from the Editor Est. 1964 The front page of this edi- a modernisation. Social sign, social media taking by “illegible” feedback, and tion marks a big change media now has a place on its place on the front page. inconsistent marks, unac- Email us: for Nouse with a bit of a our front page, so you can It will take some getting ceptable considering that [email protected] redesign. 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A second-year 1,500 word essay due in Week 5, and student, who wished to remain a 2,500 word essay due in Week 1 of anonymous, told Nouse: “I was dis- the following term, both of which traught to see the marker use sar- students chose their own topics for. casm and call my writing style … The changes were criticised at akin to reading ‘nonsense’. the beginning of last term when it “Although parts of their mark- emerged that third-year students ing was fair … the feedback was had not been informed about them one-dimensional … and, in addition due to an administrative error. to reducing me to the verge of tears, Commenting on the recent has cemented the view that I’m feedback, Cherelle Johannes, the clearly not good enough [for] this second-year single subject course degree and the markers clearly don’t representative for English, said: care quite enough to give personal “The student reps as a whole are and detailed feedback to help this.” trying to gauge the level of dissat- However, other students were isfaction, as clearly there are some satisfied with the marking.