Finally! Working with the student
Evaluate the student's ability to recognize the most disruptive error
This guide addresses error pattern analysis to help students with editing and proofreading their own papers. Most often, you'll use this technique with speakers/writers of English as a second language, but you can use the techniques with any students who have multiple errors in a paper they need to edit. Depending on the student (native speaker or non-native speaker, experienced or inexperienced writer), you'll need to adapt how you use the results of your analysis.
The analysis itself is fairly straightforward and falls into distinct stages:
