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Corrective Writing Feedback
Not every English teacher believes in corrective writing feedback. Some devolve responsibility to the student writer or peer editors. Others feel that identifying grammar, usage, and…
Don’t Teach with Grammarly®
Don't teach with Grammarly® because it promotes incidental learning, limits assessment data, perpetuates the fallacy that writing is correct or incorrect, creates lazy and tech-reliant writers,…
Writing Feedback
Check out these articles on providing writing feedback with customizable canned comments in Google Classroom and Google docs and slides.
Google Classroom Comment Bank
Clearly, the Google Comment Bank will help teachers save time compared to red-inking a stack of papers. However, I think you’ll agree that e-Comments is quicker,…
Grammar in the Writing Context
For years teachers have heard that grammar must be taught in the writing context. Or replace grammar with writing skills, vocabulary, spelling, or even reading. I would argue that reinforced or practiced or applied might be…
Writing Feedback Research
Since the burden (and privilege) of teaching writing falls so exclusively on the teacher or workplace supervisor, it makes sense to learn what works from the…
22 Comma Rules
22 Comma Rules provide concise rules and clear examples to improve your mastery of mechanics.
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…