Sommers, Nancy. "Responding to Student Writing." CCC 32 (May 1982): 148–56. Rpt. in Teaching Writing: Theories and Practices. Ed. J. Travers. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1988.
I found this other article by Sommers, which we've read. And seeing how i am covering peer response. I thought it would be interesting to see a different type of response. Teacher response in this case. I think it would be interesting to compare different types of responses instead of only focusing on one.
Sommer says that a challenge teachers face is to develop comments which will "provide an inherent reason for students to revise". By this she means that teachers sometimes struggle to give feedback that will make sense for students to revise. For some students according to Sommers, revision is not fully learned. She says we must think of it as "a sense of revision as discovery, as a repeated process of beginning again, as starting out new". Sommers article is mainly telling how teacher response is not 100 percent accurate. As teachers, they make mistakes too. And sometimes students revise wrong by not fully understanding what is being asked for them to revise.
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