Appealing Work Returned for Revision

sailornurse · Mar 14, 2016

Did you meet with the professor to go over the paper and discuss the changes needed? Perhaps there is a misunderstanding of the instructions? Rubrics can be mis-interpreted. As former faculty, I have had students completely misunderstand entire assignments.

featherzRN, MSN · Mar 14, 2016

Has anyone had experience with filing an appeal? It seems like I have a pretty good case since I followed the task instructions and the rubric precisely, yet I still had my work returned.

I know several people who have won appeals, and just as many who received a clearer explanation of what needed correction from e-care. Send over the appeal to ecare and see what they say. I've never bothered to appeal anytime I had something sent back, but it was usually something small and nitpicky I could fix quicker than waiting for ecare. :)

klone, MSN, RN · Mar 14, 2016

Yep, agree with featherz. How many sections require revision? It may be easier to just give them what they want, than the need to be right. Whenever I've had to do revisions, it's taken me about 10 minutes to revise and resubmit.

I remember once, I had a paper returned because the grader said that I didn't address a point in the rubric. I HAD addressed it, but because my paper didn't have headings that were worded with the rubric sections, they didn't see the fact that I had addressed it in the body of a paragraph. Literally, the only thing I changed was to turn one paragraph into to, and add a heading that matched the wording of that rubric point.

I learned then to always design my papers so that the rubric points are used as headings for the paragraphs.

Hoosier_RN, MSN · Mar 17, 2016

I'm starting BSN-MSN Management/Leadership May 1, 2016. I'm hoping it goes well. My BSN was from IU, but was soooo long ago.

Redsox07 · Apr 23, 2016

When I have had different papers require revising, I must admit, the thing that hurts most is my pride. I really wanted to be one of those WGU students that gets through the entire problem not needing a single revision.... But, whatever, that ain't me.

Good thing is - as far as I know - you can revise and revise over and over and over again until it passes. Passing is all that matters. (I think that's true. Am not entirely sure about that). Simply, read their revisions, you can also email the course mentor for assistance and submit again.

I had to revise some stuff when I took biochemistry. They said some of my photos were not positioned correctly. When I improved one of the views on my google slides, I immediately understood what they meant. It would have saved me like 3 days if I had simply emailed or phoned the course mentor to hear them say - "Your photos are cropped incorrectly." I think ultimately, the course mentors are on your side and appealing (this is just my feeling) might be a waste of valuable time and energy. But, do what you think is right.