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- When students are asked to read papers from other students, the activity should be focused and the readers should be prepared to offer real help. Two areas are most helpful to the revising writer:
- Meeting the assignment requirements.
- After seeing models that show what and how to evaluate, readers can tell writers whether the assignment’s components are present and fully answered.
- Clarity. Readers can tell writers what they understand and what might be missing.
- One method that can help identify what is missing is to ask readers to write a summary of the paper for the writer.
- See WAC’s Types of Ways to Approach Feedbackfor more suggestions about revision.
- Meeting the assignment requirements.
- If students are writing multiple versions of a basic assignment (as in several article reviews), ask that all copies be turned in for credit with only one revised and edited for your feedback and/or grade.
- Students gain authority over their writing
- You evaluate only the best product
- Avoid writing on student papers
- Development: Answers assignment’s requirements
- Clarity: Notes about what’s clear and what’s not
- Style/Editing notes
- Use grading cover sheets with three categories:
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