Transparency, in wine certification

I moved to Berkeley, California to complete a degree in English Literature at the University of California. Coming from a podunk town in the interior of California where most academic challenges top out at giving correct change to a shop clerk, I’d generally received high grades. So, it was admittedly a shock when I received back my first essay, marked with a very pointy grade of ‘C’. Not really knowing what went wrong, I looked at the notes (of which there were many) and I talked to the Teaching Assistant […]