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Calhoon-Dillahunt, Carolyn; Forrest, Dodie – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2013
As writing instructors, the authors spend hours "talking back" to their students through written comments on their drafts. But how do student writers receive their comments, and what do they "do" with this feedback? Teachers invest so much time and energy in their responses to papers. How do they know what gets through, what makes sense to their…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Feedback (Response), Student Writing Models, Pilot Projects
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Vaughn, Gary; Wenner, Barbara – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1999
Discusses two intriguing ways of explaining error in student writing--the work of Michel Foucault and the work of Roland Barthes. Describes in-class activities and essay assignments that use these perspectives to help students to reach improved understanding of error in writing. (SR)
Descriptors: Error Correction, Error Patterns, Higher Education, Writing Assignments
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Ryan-Thompson, Lin A. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2005
Grading essays and research papers can be the most trying part of any writing instructor's job. Fitting corrections, suggestions, and notes between double-spaced lines of text and into margins often creates a legibility problem, which only worsens when grading stacks of papers to meet deadlines. This essay describes electronic grading, a method…
Descriptors: Writing Teachers, Grading, Writing Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction