Providing Feedback in a Technology-Mediated Environment

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Providing Feedback in a Technology-Mediated Environment

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Teaching Tip

L Cooper has contributed (thank you!):

I’ve been correcting compositions for eons, and sometimes I have adopted techniques to make correcting simpler that I forgot over time.

Here’s the one I remembered, today:

Rather than make the exact same comments on the exact same errors on several different papers, as I see errors, I start typing out the short explanations in a master Word document. Whenever possible, I reference a page number in their textbook that has the appropriate explanations. I number the comments. Then, when I see the errors in students’ papers, I underline the error, write the number of the explanation next to the underlined error. I staple the comments to each composition. I assign a rewrite that requires that students actually read the explanations.

The virtues of this are:
1) No one can read my handwriting, not even me. There is a higher probability students will actually read the comments if they are legible.
2) The kinds of mistakes students make are on vocabulary or grammatical concepts they are learning and that I will assess on chapter tests and in their subsequent writing. Even if they don’t make all the errors on the master document, if they bother to read it, they’ll have a great study sheet for the test.
3) If I assign similar activities in the future, I’ll have a terrific master comment/correction sheet that I can use either as is or that I can add to when future students come up with even more exotic mistakes than those of this year’s students!

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Writing Across the Curriculum

There was a meeting of faculty interested in WAC on February 17th. This is an ongoing conversation at BCC. Some of the resources the group has used in the past is available on Blackboard. Contact Nancy Travis for information on how to access the materials.