I mention the geographic details because I've noticed people from the USA tend to assume Australian cities are on a similar latitude to the northern US rather than the southern US.
True! But it is also the case that USAns tend not to think of weather in terms of latitude, because it's a poor predictor of local weather. Boston is further north than most of Wyoming, but has much milder winters due to the Gulf Stream, which in turn gives England much milder weather than Boston, even though England is further north than the entire continental US.
Ah, your professors clearly offer different marking criteria to their tutors.
No tutors in grad school; the profs had to read our papers for their own selves.
for going over the (unstated) word limit...
The other difference, I'm thinking, is that I was at a school for returning adults, and that had a bunch of cultural effects on the school. One of the chief ones was the administration and faculty knew the student body had zero tolerance for being held to unstated rules. It was an entire student body of uppity rules-lawyers, and the odds of a student contesting a grade that was dinged because of an unstated rule approached 100%.
I'm surprised you're taking it. I'd give them bloody hell. "I am not a mind reader. I will do the assignment you gave, as you specify it. It takes me additional time to edit a paper down; it's faster for me to just write out my first hot-take answer. I'm not going to waste my precious time meeting unspoken requirements. If you want me to spend additional time meeting length maximum requirements, you can mention the length maximum in the assignment. You have no right to deduct points from my grade for a standard you didn't see fit to inform me of."
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True! But it is also the case that USAns tend not to think of weather in terms of latitude, because it's a poor predictor of local weather. Boston is further north than most of Wyoming, but has much milder winters due to the Gulf Stream, which in turn gives England much milder weather than Boston, even though England is further north than the entire continental US.
Ah, your professors clearly offer different marking criteria to their tutors.
No tutors in grad school; the profs had to read our papers for their own selves.
for going over the (unstated) word limit...
The other difference, I'm thinking, is that I was at a school for returning adults, and that had a bunch of cultural effects on the school. One of the chief ones was the administration and faculty knew the student body had zero tolerance for being held to unstated rules. It was an entire student body of uppity rules-lawyers, and the odds of a student contesting a grade that was dinged because of an unstated rule approached 100%.
I'm surprised you're taking it. I'd give them bloody hell. "I am not a mind reader. I will do the assignment you gave, as you specify it. It takes me additional time to edit a paper down; it's faster for me to just write out my first hot-take answer. I'm not going to waste my precious time meeting unspoken requirements. If you want me to spend additional time meeting length maximum requirements, you can mention the length maximum in the assignment. You have no right to deduct points from my grade for a standard you didn't see fit to inform me of."