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How Much and What to Mark on Essays
For those who still assign writing process essays and/or essay exams and believe that students can and do benefit from comments, the question of How Much…
How to Write Effective Essay Comments
Teachers need to know how to distinguish among corrective, directive, and facilitative responses, the components of written discourse, and closing comments to provide instructive essay comments.
How to Add Essay e-Comments to Your Computer
Wouldn't it be wonderful if teachers could type and save their commonly-used "canned" writing comments to automatically insert into student essays without all the bother of…
How to Use the Computer to Grade Essays
Here's how one teacher began using the computer to grade student writing and developed a free download of 438 e-comments to automatically insert into student essays.
Grammar Checkers for Teachers
It’s exhausting and time-consuming. So, naturally, teachers look for short-cuts that will save energy and time, but ones which will still give students what they need…
Computer-Graded Essays
Computer-gradingof student writing is being actively marketed to K-12 schools and universities. The NCTE and CCCC are adamantly against this trend. But, is there a middle…
Essay e-Grading
Good teachers know that students need detailed, prescriptive, and personal comments on their essays throughout the writing process to make significant improvement. However, the process can…