They are supposed to OK the topics with me beforehand and my grading rubric actually includes this step – I had no recollection of a certain student having OK’d her topic with me and no copy anywhere of her email or my “OK” back to her but to give her the benefit of the doubt I asked her to resend. Really I was thinking she would fess up and say she had never contacted me.
When I got her response it was just the body of the email, basically just text with salutation and closing and a couple of sentences asking for the OK. No date stamp or heading or subject/to/from, etc. at the top. I was surprised that I would have missed an email but asked her to please just forward the whole email so I could see the date stamp and give her credit for having OK'd her topic by the deadline I had posted for the OK's.
Her response:
Oh I was afraid you would say that. I don’t keep my sent mail so I just wrote that out for you because I know it’s what I would have said. (my italics)
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