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(including the bit about including headings when they were never suggested in the materials)

I don't have an active membership anymore so I can't see the full grading rubric with the syllabus, but doesn't the rubric indicate APA format? APA format certainly calls for headers.

The College Composition II course (MLA format) is the one where I got dinged on headers. AFAIK headers are optional in either format, but are encouraged in APA.

Either way, it would have been fine if the comments were just a FYI (like "this could be improved or made more clear by using headers" -- there were some suggestions like that included elsewhere) but points were deducted like they were expected by the rubric. It was only a point or two overall so I didn't really care that much, but it was still a bit annoying.

I agree. I don't have the essay instructions anymore for my class, but I seem to recall it only specifying to do the citations in APA format, and not the essay itself. My grader said "headings would have been helpful" or something to that effect, and did take a couple of points. If they were mandatory, I'd think he/she would (and should) have been more specific about why I lost the points, and it absolutely shouldn't have been assumed and should have been explicitly stated in the rubric. The Comm. class I took was a new one, so I think they are prob still in the "kinks" phase, at least I hope so. The class was ok, but the essay was a disaster.

I wrote those other two essays for the LIT class that I mentioned having to do earlier. Spent less time on those and got 45/50 on both. SAME GRADER for all three essays.