https://nitter.net/TurningPointOU/status/1994156726225129932
I can't comment on the quality of writing. I do know that one of the recommended and proven strategies for getting high grades on essays, like for the writing portions of the SATs, is to simply memorize a lot of rare words and use them in the essay. And so it's possible that simply mentioning religious works in an essay could also lead to a lower score: negative biases by graders instead of positive biases.
The way to determine if this was an unusually low score would be to release other essays graded for the same assignment and their scores. This is unlikely to happen, so everyone is just speculating. Maybe one side will 'win' as a result of all this speculating, and the other side will be at fault for not attempting to change this from a situation based on speculation, to a situation based on facts.
I am commenting on the fact that it was not just a failing grade, it was a 0 score. In my experience, the only way to get a 0 score on a subjective assignment is to not do it at all. This is what happened with all projects assigned to me in my 11th grade US history class, including group projects. I was too busy to do a good job on them, and so I just did not do them at all, rather than spend 10 minutes on a poor project that would receive an F score but still be worth at least half of the total points.
So, if the professor wanted to give a failing grade for this paper, with standard grading it would have been enough to give it 14 points. Instead, the professor gave 0 points.
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Update 29 Nov 2025, 15:52
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