Providing Feedback on Student Writing - Achieve the Core.
This academic writing feedback comment bank will help you quickly provide feedback on academic writing. The comment bank can be imported into eMarking Assistant which provides a convenient way of inserting these comments when providing feedback on academic writing. There is one row for each comment with the following columns.
Excerpted comments on an early draft of a student essay on the changing role of fathers in post-World War II poetry (class: Eng 211: American Literature from 1865 to present) As for the essay, it starts well, but I wonder if it spends a little too much time talking about fathers in general rather than specifically.
These two comments are often heard in classrooms. Have you ever been on the receiving end of one or both of these? How about on the other end; the end that’s actually making the comment? Studies show that teacher feedback and comments are important to students.
Understanding feedback from your essay marker.. Remember, feedback comments for students will be in the format of guidance. This may look like that above, but can also take more practical form. To suggest further reading. A marker will have a broad concept of your subject area. Often, they may be privy to detailed knowledge too.
What do good and bad feedback comments look like? Sometimes in the rush to finish marking a set of papers, we make offhand comments without realizing their potential impact on students. In our own defense, faced with a stack of 90 essay tests of five questions each, it is not surprising that shorthand comments seem like a useful way to provide feedback.
Students value the feedback comments that instructors write on their assignments, especially when these comments help explain gaps in understanding, are supportive in tone and suggest ways of improving future work. To get the best out of feedback comments, however, it is vital that students engage with them.
Responding to Student Writing Comments and grades on student writing arguably constitute the most serious, sustained teaching intervention you can make in a student’s writing career. Responding to a student’s paper involves (1) reading it carefully while making marginal comments, (2) writing a final comment in which you sum.