SnarkyMarking
LightNews LightNews
banner
snarkymarking.bsky.social
SnarkyMarking
@snarkymarking.bsky.social
11 followers 35 following 19 posts
Just a long-suffering TA with inexplicably positive student feedback. Some comments are too blunt to give to students, so I post them here instead. *All posts have been anonymized.
Posts Replies Media Videos
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“I’ve specifically been instructed not to fail people on this assignment, so, congratulations, you passed!”

#Academia #Education #University #College #School #Writing #Marking
December 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“The article you’ve cited does not exist.”

#Academia #Education #University #College #School #Writing #Marking
December 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“You need to actually attach your assignment to the email.”

#Academia #Education #University #College #School #Writing #Marking
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“You did not complete the assignment. As a result, you got a zero. I’m not sure what is confusing about this.”

#Academia #Education #University #College #School #Writing #Marking
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“Thank you for your email. I’m afraid I don’t recognize your name. Have you attended any seminars this term?”

#Academia #Education #University #College #School #Writing #Marking
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“Your argument is compelling; it’s a shame you haven’t backed it up with evidence.”

#Academia #Education #Marking #University #College #Writing #School
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“The point of an essay question is that your essay should answer it.”

#Academia #Education #Marking #University #College #Writing #School
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“Criticizing the author for being male does not count as scholarly analysis."

#Academia #Education #Marking #University #College #Writing
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“You didn’t need to restate your thesis at the end of every paragraph. And you certainly didn’t need to replicate the same grammatical error every time.”

#Academia #Education #Marking #University #College #Writing
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“Please double space your assignment. I need room to read between the lines.”

#Academia #Education #Marking #University #College #Writing
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“I didn’t know it was possible to build an essay entirely from sentence fragments, but here we are.”

#Academia #Education #Marking #University #College #Writing
November 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“A five-paragraph essay is not a suitable format for a 2000-word paper.”

#Academia #Education #Marking #University #College #Writing
October 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“I suspect you probably have some good ideas, but your writing is so awful that I can’t actually tell.”

#Academia #Education #Marking #University #College
October 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“Why did you feel the need to put people’s names in quotation marks?”

#Academia #Education #Marking #University #College
October 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“Your mark could have been much higher if you had followed the assignment instructions.”

#Academia #Education #Marking
October 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“Would it kill you to use a comma occasionally?”

#Academia #Education #Marking
October 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“I’m sure it would be possible to find articles that are less relevant to your essay topic than the ones you’ve chosen, but it would take a lot of work.”

#Academic #Education #Marking
October 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“You seem to have forgotten what the essay question was, despite putting it at the top of your essay.”

#Academia #Education #Marking
October 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
snarkymarking.bsky.social
“I can’t tell what your thesis is, and frankly, I don’t think you know either.”

#academia #marking #education
October 8, 2025 at 7:28 AM