Essay #7 Brainstorm

Approach to marking grammar errors

• Overall focus remains coherent, organized thought for student writers
• Keeping in mind that some errors are more significant than others as well as more easily solved/taught to
• Repeated process of having student first self-edit their own work
• Indirect feedback by marking where there is an error and letting the student figure out both problem and solution
• Taking note of trends, error patterns
• Working one-on-one with student on error patterns
• "I noticed" language to point out patterns
• Having the student try to fix problem areas before suggesting alternative ways of saying things