Elijah McCoy, Lewis Latimer and Granville Woods: African-American Inventors of the 19th Century — A Postscript
I got my paper back from Dr. Sullivan the other night. For some reason, as with everything in this class the past semester, I’ve been a tad nervous when receiving something back that has been graded; it’s just a thing with me, I don’t know why I’m apprehensive about it. And when I got my paper back I saw at the top the grade — a 75. Wow. C+. Awesome…for real.
No, it wasn’t awesome. It was kinda sucky.
But then I remembered that Dr. Sullivan has kind of a screwy grading scheme, 100 isn’t always the top score that you can get, so I asked someone, “What was the top score you could get on this paper?” And they replied, “Seventy-five.”
So I got an A+, a 100%, or as I said, “a perfect,” and it only took about two weeks and some furious editing.
And he said -
Excellent paper. I like the way you presented the three inventors in the context of a broader picture of invention — and its influence within the African-American experience.
And I feel good about the paper. Very good.