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<p>If it were me, I’d resend the file, making sure that it’s not corrupted and ask her if she would be so kind to read it, grade it and provide you with honest feedback. </p>
<p>Giving you a B for a paper she couldn’t read is pretty dishonest herself. Yours was an honest mistake, hers wasn’t.</p>
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<p>Absolutely. The OP is honest and the teacher is not. Completely. Of course, there’s the chance that not everything we read on the internet is true. But surely it’s true here on CC, where everyone is telling the truth. So we can always believe what we read here, even in the absence of the other side of the story. Because this is CC, where everyone tells the truth.</p>
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<p>I’m sure that’s NOT the case with the OP.</p>
<p>OP: Your prof admitted that she didn’t read your essay, and assigned a grade in spite of that fact. You have a copy of that email in your possession. You have a clear case of fraud to take to the department. This professor has no business teaching if she cannot be bothered to read assigned papers, and further, assigns grades in spite of the fact that she hasn’t read the assigned work. I think you should go to the department head with email in hand and make your case. I don’t see how it doesn’t get you at least another look at your paper.</p>
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<p>Com’om. This is just one grade, in one subject, one project. Even if it was not fairly graded … B is a reasonable grade. Let’s enjoy the holiday season!</p>
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<p>So you are saying people shouldn’t express their concerns or offer up solutions and comments because it is Christmas time?</p>
<p>That is an interesting viewpoint.</p>
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<p>A dear friend in college took Organic Chemistry as a pre-req to Medical School application. Very important class. On the final, the students were asked to produce the chemical drawings (molecular formula?) of various substances. One was for TNT. My friend just couldn’t remember it. So he drew a picture of a stick of dynamite with a sparkling wick, just because he couldn’t come up with anything better.</p>
<p>The professor was apparently very amused, because he put a check mark by the drawing, with a smiley face accompanied by the comment “Ha ha. Merry Christmas.” My friend got full credit. </p>
<p>So you just never know. :)</p>
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<p>Which is what we presume because why would anyone bother posting this kind of stuff if they were going to lie.</p>
<p>It’s not always a matter of lying but often a matter if perception. And let’s face it, perception is often conveniently self serving. </p>
<p>And if you think no one purposely lies on the Internet, well…</p>
<p>So, going back to the OP and his/her post, I checked my own university’s undergraduate catalogue, and it lists believing your instructor assigned a grade arbitrarily as a valid reason to do a grade appeal. </p>
<p>At least at my university (you’ll have to check your university’s catalogue), you have to speak to your instructor about your grade no more than 10 days after your final grade is posted through the school. After that you can make a detailed appeal to the chair (or the dean if your instructor is the chair) where you provide all documentation and evidence for your claim along with a thorough description of it. They have until the drop date of the following semester to get back to you (at my uni), but they’re still required to give you a written, dated response. </p>
<p>So if you want to pursue this, check your undergraduate catalogue and see what it says. If it were at my university, I think it’d have a decent enough case. You would just have to make sure you were as thorough, honest, and non-accusatory as possible. </p>
<p>Just thought I’d share since I recently read about grade appeals. I wish you luck with whatever you decide!</p>
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<p>Corruption of files may be rare, but not impossible. They could happen as a result of virus/malware infections, failing hard drives, RAM going bad/dust in RAM slots*, etc. </p>
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<p>Nrdsb4 your friend who took orgo was lucky. Take a look at the teacher responses to these clever answers. [39</a> Test Answers That Are 100% Wrong But Totally Genius At The Same Time | Distractify](<a href=“http://distractify.com/fun/fails/test-answers-that-are-totally-wrong-but-still-genius/]39”>41 Test Answers That Should Be Marked Right Even Though They're Wrong). (These kids answers cracked me up!)</p>
<p>And a person recently sent me a file we thought was corrupted (that’s what it said when I tried to open it). Turns out she accidentally used a bad character (a period instead of an underscore). We renamed the file and it was fine.</p>
<p>I once answered an essay question on a Chem final as a badly done parody of the Night before Christmas. Amused the prof to the point that he gave me undeserved partial credit and recruited me to the department…</p>
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<p>That was my favorite one from the link above, jym626. Those were really funny.</p>
<p>Some of them had me truly laughing out loud.</p>
<p>So, op. any chance you accidentally put a bad character in the Filename attachment?</p>