[Bkn-english-646-fall-2009] Jhon Sanchez's comments

[Jhon Sanchez]

I have lived the teacher comments topic in my all my
academic roles: as a student, as a tutor and as a teacher. 

 

 

In my experience like a student I found that teacher’s
comments are less helpful. Teachers usually write comments such as: need more
development; this argument is not well supported; or I do not see the relation
of ideas. In these circumstances, I tried to imagine what was going on  my teacher’s head. Instead teacher
could write questions and objections that has not been address by the writer. 

 

As a writer, I have also seen compromised my integrity. In
the readings, the author exemplifies that the student has used a fragment
arguing its rhetorical effect. I have faced the same problem with teacher whose
greater preoccupation is the mechanics. So, I have been almost forced to change
or dismiss a sentence without appropriate justification. 

 

 

As a tutor, I have also faced the problems of teacher
comments. I would try to use the listing method and I would try to make
conference with the professors.  I
would also suggest that we could be assigned to work in specific classes. I
would even like to attend the class in regular basis.

 

In addition, we need a better coordination between teachers
and tutors. So, I think that teachers need also be aware of the two types of
comments: conceptual comments and editorial comments. Teacher could write
editorial comments in different color from conceptual comments. Indeed, I would
suggest even a different color for other kind of comments. If a teacher has a
grading sheet each comment should correspond to each item in the grading sheet.
In that case each comment should be written in a different color. 

 

In my role as a teacher, I have used comments
feature on Microsoft Word to write my comments. I also have used track changes
to actually to make corrections. These technological features help the students
to see their problems. I also require that my students return his papers using
track changes. So, I can visualize the changes already made. Reading this week
assignment, I also realized that my comments could undermine a student
confidence.  So, in future I would
try to keep a balance number of comments using all the technology to enhance my
contact with the students 




--- On Tue, 10/20/09, Lodjical at aol.com <Lodjical at aol.com> wrote:

From: Lodjical at aol.com <Lodjical at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [Bkn-english-646-fall-2009] Assignment 6 from Yani
To: bkn-english-646-fall-2009 at lists-1.liu.edu
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 9:13 AM



 
 


Chapter seven, I feel, was just much better than some of the previous and 
more direct--more useful.  I find the two types of comments very helpful in 
working with students/tutees.  Do people feel/think we should have a 
handout of some sort that has the basic proofreader marks to at least narrow 
down the ambiguity of some professors' commentary?  Otherwise, we can 
definitely work on the "in-progress" markings and if students want to know 
specific notes they (and/or we) may speak directly with the 
professors.

Yani: You speak of the infamous red ink and I agree with 
you. But I must add, seeing it from the students' perspective, red symbolizes 
danger.  Whenever marking papers/essays, I use green ink (since lead 
smudges) because it symbolizes hope--or at least doesn't make the paper 
bleed! 

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