I'm convinced that the only way to survive as a community 
college developmental English instructor is to keep laughing.  
Here's why:
 
On how they've improved/what they need to improve at the end 
of a semester-long grammar and basic composition class*
 
* At the end of an extended paragraph about why subject-verb 
  agreement is the most important thing she has learned this 
  semester: "Now I know that subjects and verbs always needs to 
  agree."
 
* "In class I have learn lots and lots of grammar.  Writing is
  something else that I done in class."
 
* "I believe I still need more improvement on commas, dangling 
  and misplaced modifiers.  When I use commas I need to understand 
  when I need to put one in my sentence; even though I got better 
  on my second essay."
 
* "So now instead of one ruff copy I have three or more sometimes."
  Maybe he needs four.
 
* "I've learned a lot of grammar.  For example, I've learned that
  instead of saying, 'I had my hair done,' I should say, 'I had 
  my hair did.'"
 
* "Yes I have improved greatly.  In the fact that I now look for
  incomplete and runon sentences, all the time."  Do you really?
 
* "I have improved on languagewise, how to punctuations, what 
  thesis statements mean and to relate topics when writing an 
  essay."  Amazingly, this really was a "languagewise" improvement.
 
* "I need to improve on what run-offs are."  First he should 
  probably learn what they're called.
 
* "I have improved my skills using commas and apostrophe's.  
  Because in my first essay I would just throw them in anywhere." 
 
* On where he still needs improvement: "I would say I still need 
  it in fragments.  Because I write the way I think it and then 
  it ends up being a fragment.  I do understand them."  I would 
  say you need some work on that, too.
 
* "But the main thing that's very clear to me now, is using commas 
  in the correct places."  Don't be so sure.
 
And gems on other topics.
 
* In an essay about the golden rule: "Do unto others as they do 
  unto you."
 
* "There are many people today that are handicapped in manor."
 
* In an essay about why her dad was such a good influence on her 
  as a child: "I feel that I grew up to be a pretty deceit young 
  lady."
 
* Thomas Jefferson "drafted the Declaration of Intendance."
 
* "When pus came to shove."  That's some serious pus.
 
* In an essay about love: "You sometime dream of a night and 
  shiny armor."
 
* In a profound statement backed by at least twenty years of 
  life experience: "Television gives us the correct and 
  understandable answer to why man even exists on Earth."  When 
  pushed, this student explained that she meant why MEN exist; 
  she learns that on Ricki Lake.