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"Last semester Lindsay Hutton "taught" 1,940 students. She met only 70 of them in person. Those were the ones enrolled in the two weekly sections of English composition that she taught in an actual classroom. The hundreds and hundreds of others she knew only as anonymous numbered documents she read on her computer screen and then, with a click of a button, sent back out into the ether.

As one of 60 graduate students hired to teach freshman composition at Texas Tech University, Ms. Hutton had a weekly quota of grading.

Each week she was assigned to read, comment on, and grade 17 drafts of essays, offer a second grade on 18 more, and review about 25 peer critiques and 20 student self-evaluations to fulfill her 12-hour grading responsibility — allowing an average of 10 minutes per document. Ms. Hutton, a Ph.D. student in creative writing, is not paid per draft, but some graduate students who take on grading work during the holidays are. Last spring, for example, students were......

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