Keywords
Asynchronous, Pedagogy, Paper feedback, Paper comments
First Paragraph
Those of us lucky enough to teach in a classroom or tutor in a writing center recognize how much learning can happen in a 30-minute conversation. Spending those same 30 minutes writing comments on a student’s paper can feel like we’re teaching only a fraction of what we’re capable of, and yet writing these comments is an enormous part of our work! A professor in a writing-intensive discipline may spend 300 workdays of her career grading papers, and a writing center may spend a large percentage of its tutoring time on written feedback. But what do students learn from all these hours dedicated to commenting? Troublingly, the answer is that we don’t know.
Citation Information
Type of Source: Blog
Author: Mike A. Shapiro
Year of Publication: 2014
Blog: Another Word