More Than Just Error Correction

This reading is mainly about students writing and revision processes. Students revise in many different ways, some are aware of how they revise and others are not. This reading included many studies and plenty of evidence on the different ways students revises. By conducting interviews after the writing process, including an observation, researchers were able to retrieve accurate information from the students and ask the students exactly why they did what they did. Through these studies and observations the researchers were able to see how students revise and why they revise certain things. You never really learn exactly how to revise in school, often it is said to do what you are most comfortable with. Although I do think it is good being able to do what is most comfortable for you, learning particular ways on how to revise correctly would be much more helpful. As it says in the reading, sometimes students were not exactly sure why they corrected something or why they corrected it how they did. Also what was mentioned in the paper and true was that as we, as authors of a paper, write the paper, everything will sound good and clear to us, but as others read the paper it might not be so clear to them. Writing and revising as well takes a lot of practice, which students often do not get, due to specific teaching curriculums. Students should be taught what to be aware of when revising a paper, either it be the students or another students. This article was helpful to read, because now it will make me think twice while I am writing and when I am revising my paper or another student’s paper.  

Responding to Student Writing

This article goes into great detail about how teachers should comment on student’s rough drafts. I think that this is an important factor to look at when it comes to writing. Most students have an anxiety of writing and other just simply do not like writing. There are many students who do not use rough drafts, they just write one paper and that is it. With students have the confidence to write and review papers; they would be able to write better papers. With teachers giving students good comments on the revision process and what should be revised or changed, students would be able to write a much better paper and may be able to include things that they would not have thought of previously. I found this article to be very interesting, because as I was reading along I agreed with most things that were said in this article and agreed with the ways to change or better these problems. If teachers expect great revised papers, they should be able to good feedback on the students papers, so that the student can clearly understand what should be changed or looked at again. If the teachers are better trained and begin to do this, I am sure that it will benefit many students and students will become better writers.