Home Teaching Guides Commenting On Student Writing Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Begin

Introduction

Myths and Realties

When Not to Respond

Designing Writing Assignments

Commenting: Margins and End

Margins

Insight from a Colleague

End

Insight from a Colleague

In Brief

Insight from a Colleague

More Suggestions

Questions to Ask

Key Strategies

Being Productive

Insight from a Colleague

Insights into Process

Time-Saving Tips

Commenting on Drafts

Rubrics

Helping Students Learn Editing

Helping Students Learn to Fix Errors

Overview of Rhetorical Context

Discipline Specific Resources

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Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Begin

• What opportunities do you have when commenting? How can writing comments afford you a space for communicating with students that other teaching contexts do not?

• What worries you the most about grading student papers? The grade itself? The comments? Both?

• Thinking back to your own experiences as a student writer, what kinds of comments did you most appreciate getting from your professors? Which comments did you think were least helpful?