Paper-Marking Abbreviations

I use certain abbreviations over and over in marking student papers. Here's a list of abbreviations that I might use in marking your paper. If you have any questions, please ask me!

MarkMeaning
?meaning of a particular word or short phrase is unclear
(a)an apostrophe needs to go in the place marked in the text
(c)a comma needs to go in the space marked in the text
(h)a hyphen needs to go in the space marked in the text
(something circled)general punctuation (or other basic grammatical) problem
cap.capitalize
l.c.lower case
n.c.no comma
n.h.no hyphen
sp. outspell out