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Negotiating the Margins: Some Principles of Responding to Our Students' Writing, Some Strategies for Helping Students Read Our Comments.
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Hodges, Elizabeth – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1997
The margins of college students' writing are the ideal site for teacher-student conversations about the writing, but most of these conversations misfire, largely for reasons that are avoidable. Suggestions are made for responding so students can understand, respond to, and learn from teachers' written comments. Examples from several…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Evaluation Methods
Responding to Writing On-Line.
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Hawisher, Gail E.; Moran, Charles – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1997
Electronic dialogues tend to be rapid, informal, and public. When college teachers use computer technology to respond to student writing, they have an opportunity to rethink and reinvent the ways in which they teach and by which students learn. Despite some new concerns and problems, this mode of communicating does not evoke the same response that…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Instruction, Computers, Electronic Mail
Grading Classroom Participation.
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Bean, John C.; Peterson, Dean – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Grading class participation can send positive signals to college students about the kind of learning and thinking an instructor values. Various structures for participation (whole-class discussion, cold-calling on students, collaborative learning, electronic mail, journals, student-faculty conferences) call for different approaches to assessment.…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
In Our Own Voices: Using Recorded Commentary To Respond to Writing.
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Anson, Chris M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1997
Tape-recorded commentaries on student writing can tell students in detail how a reader responds to their writing. Computers that can record and/or play back voice recordings can also help improve the way teachers annotate students' drafts. Strategies for using the method are presented, with excerpts from students' discipline-based writing and…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Classroom Communication, College Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
When Less Is More: Principles for Responding in the Disciplines.
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Lunsford, Ronald F. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1997
Offers basic guidelines for college teachers in responding to students' writing in the disciplines, with the central principle that teachers' comments should reflect their instructional goals for individual students. Suggests that fewer, more carefully designed comments are likely to be more effective than many unfocused responses. Examples of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Evaluation Criteria