All the grading work is done!
Although this may sound strange, my reading speed is fairly constant, whether I'm reading challenging theoretical texts or badly written student papers. Of course I don't read their papers as closely and slowly as, say, Hegel's texts, but I still can't read the former quickly. This is maybe because I learned English by reading "good" texts and bad writings are still new to me. There are lots of strange and awkward phrases and sentences I don't see anywhere else. But I'm grateful that they exposed me to run-on sentences and other unintended and unsuccessful stylistic experiments, for it's now easier for me to appreciate Proust's writing style that violates grammatical expectations and conventions for good aesthetic reasons!
