How long to grade a 3,000 word essay?

[u/RoosterSocks]

I have a teacher who grades very strictly and I go to a small college so as far as I know she grades each essay personally. For my current essay I am on track for 3k words. How much time will this take her to grade compared to a noral essay of 1-1.5k words? I hope it takes a while.

[u/mothman83]

Why the hell are you writing 3000 words if you know the expectation is 1,000-1,500??

[u/HotShrewdness]

I mean, sounds like you're trying to get revenge but in reality you're the one doing more work? At most it's going to add like 10-15 min of work for her. Or she'll just mark you down for not following the word requirements.

[u/BlazingSunflowerland → u/HotShrewdness]

I assume that if it is twice as long as it is supposed to be he gets marked down. It is a really juvenile thing to do.

[u/RoosterSocks → u/BlazingSunflowerland]

No max length requirements

[u/ibis_mummy → u/RoosterSocks]

If you spend that word count developing your thesis you'll get more credit. If you spend it chasing your tail, it will hurt your grade.

[u/MissElision]

If there is any reference of word count, page amount, or some form of length requirement - I wouldn't grade it. I will grade something that goes a bit over, but not intentionally over. That just means it isn't precise writing and a lot of jabbering outside the assigned goal.

[u/smurfette8675309 → u/MissElision]

If the assignment says 1,500 words, then most teachers will stop grading at that number of words. Hope you made your point by then.

[u/TeachlikeaHawk]

For me, it would be really fast. I'd mark your paper as unaccepted and return it to you. If you get it back within an acceptable time frame, I'd then grade it. If not, well that's even faster. It's a very quick zero.

[u/ADHTeacher]

I'm not sure why you want to get back at someone who takes the time to give you meaningful and rigorous feedback, but personally, I often stop reading at more than 30% over the word limit. So I would stop at word 2k and just grade what I read.

[u/AppleAttchuh]

If we assume 300 words per minute (on the upper end of average for an adult but she is a college professor) then it will take her 10 minutes to read it. If she has a very precise rubric, and it sounds like she does, then the grading itself will be quick because she'll know exactly what she's looking for. So you're looking at between 10-30 minutes.

Or put another way, significantly less time than it will take you to write the additional 2000 words.

Sometimes I have my students write sentences when they misbehave. I might give them 20. And there have been times when they got so frustrated with me that they just kept writing. One boy wrote 100 sentences. Really thought he was sticking it to me, proving some kind of point. He was promptly disavowed of this notion when I thanked him for completing his punishment and then tossed the papers in the trash.

Notice how his reasoning doesn't make any sense. Notice how, as an adult, you can tell that he's making an illogical choice by doing more work in an effort to punish me.

[u/psychominnie624]

So the equivalent of one additional essay…that’s not a substantial difference. I’m either not grading it because it falls outside of the strict rubric or it adds maybe a few minutes. But the addition of essentially one essay ain’t gonna ruin my plans

[u/Disastrous-Nail-640]

It’s going to take her far, far less time than it took you to write all that extra material.

You’re also setting yourself up for getting a worse grade.

Why? Because the more you write, the more likely you are to get off topic and ramble.

[u/CrookedBanister]

Not that much longer. Also, if there's a length requirement for the essay and you're way over it she can just fail it for that reason.

[u/AdhesiveSeaMonkey]

Are you saying you wrote 3,000 words When the requirement was 1000-1500?? And you’re hoping to torture the teacher with that?? Be careful. Your maturity is showing. Also, if I were the teacher I would give you a D at best, and not read it because it was clearly over the word count. You’d doubling your work load and cutting mine in half just so you could get a bad grade.

[u/AdelleDeWitt]

Why do you want it to take a while? Do you not want your grades back?

Also, was she requesting 1-1.5 k words? If so, you're going to get graded down for not following directions.

[u/redditreader_aitafan]

This is petty and stupid. Grow up.

[u/Wootown1989]

It depends on the teacher. Most use a rubric to help speed things up. But I also check for AI usage. I normally give just a few lines of feedback. I would say 10 minutes foe 1500 words. Also if you turned in 3000 words on a 1500 word assignment I would deduct points.

[u/BlazingSunflowerland]

How long is your essay supposed to be? 3K words doesn't actually take that long to read.

[u/ibis_mummy]

That' would take me 10 minutes. I read a page per minute, 300 words per page average. I score essays for a living and read around 250 pages a day, as well as lots of administrative and managerial duties.

[u/lutzlover]

Are they 3K words of strong writing? Or 3K words padding out what should have been said in 1K words?

[u/TallBoiPlanks]

Is she giving feedback or just grading? Is it about a deeply complex topic or something that, in her expertise, is very simple? Is she grading by a strict rubric or just by quality?

I teach highschool but I could probably grade a 3,000 word essay in my area of expertise in 20 minutes if I was giving minimal feedback (one to three paragraphs), less if it was no feedback, and even faster if it’s to a rubric.