Negotiating the Margins: Some Principles of Responding to Our Students' Writing, Some Strategies for Helping Students Read Our Comments.

Hodges, Elizabeth

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ERIC Number: EJ539560

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Negotiating the Margins: Some Principles of Responding to Our Students' Writing, Some Strategies for Helping Students Read Our Comments.

Hodges, Elizabeth

New Directions for Teaching and Learning, n69 p77-89 Spr 1997

The margins of college students' writing are the ideal site for teacher-student conversations about the writing, but most of these conversations misfire, largely for reasons that are avoidable. Suggestions are made for responding so students can understand, respond to, and learn from teachers' written comments. Examples from several teacher-student interactions are offered. (Author/MSE)

Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Evaluation Methods, Feedback, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Teacher Student Relationship, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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Note: Theme issue: "Writing To Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines."