paper grading-itis

[Dale Cyphert <Dale.Cyphert@uni.edu>]

little tidbits like this always come around when we're grading papers! 
I recall a similar example on xmca a while ago...probably last semester 
about this time!

>>>>>>>
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. 
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at 
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a
wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be 
in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed 
it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey 
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I 
awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.



dale

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• To: Heidi Noonan-Day <Heidi.Noonan-Day@uni.edu>
• Subject: Fwd: Reading "research"
• From: Bonnie Noonan <noonanbon@cedar-falls.k12.ia.us>
• Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:53:53 -0600
• Original-recipient: rfc822;heidi.noonan-day@uni.edu

>> I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
>> >The
>> >   phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
>> >Cmabrigde
>> >   Uinervtisy, it deosn> '> t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a
>wrod 
>> > are,
>> >the
>> >   olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the
>rghit
>> >   pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it
>wouthit 
>> > a
>> >   porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter
>by
>> >   istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas 
>> > thought
>> >   slpeling was ipmorantt.

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