I'm sorry, so fucking angry. Students with sources that don't exist. Students with sources that exist but then the quotation doesn't exist.
I'm so fucking mad, because it's extra work for me (that I'm sure as hell not getting compensated for), and it also entirely defeats the purpose of the fucking class (it's writing/research, so like, engaging in a discipline and looking at what's been written before on your topic, etc.)
Kill me please. Comrades, I'm so tired. I just want to teach writing. I want to give students a way to exercise agency in the world -- to both see bad arguments and make good ones. They don't care. I'm so tired.
BTW, I took time to look up some of these sources my student used, couldn't find the quotes they quote, so told them the paper is an "A" if they can show me every quotation and failing otherwise. Does this seem like a fair policy (my thought is -- no matter the method, fabrication of evidence is justification for failing work)?
I would put some of this on the school because some colleges allow people to meet English language requirements just with things like Duolingo scores. Which would be ridiculous if I were trying to get into a university in just about any other country.
It leads to them struggling in all their classes since they can't comprehend the material, slowing things down for everyone else, taking extra resources in advising, tutoring, etc that is all trying to compensate for the lack of language skills instead of providing the actual service they were meant for.
All because the school is relentlessly pursuing inflated international tuition.