Study.com questions

[Merlin]

(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.