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November 25, 2005
Grading criteria for responses to classmates' drafts
On December 1, 6, and 8 our class sessions will be devoted to responding to drafts of Unit 4 papers. On one of these days, your paper will be reviewed by your classmates. On the other two days, you'll be reading all the drafts for that day, and you'll be assigned to respond in writing to two drafts on each of those two days. (To see when your draft is scheduled to be read and whose drafts you will be writing a response to, see the Unit 4 homework schedule.)
After December 8 I'll give you a single grade for all your responses to classmates. I'll take into account how well-considered your written responses were; did they just focus on the small things like punctuation and spelling, or did they focus on the issues listed in the assignment? I'll also look at how well-developed your comments are: Are they just quick remarks, or are they really helpful conversations about the possibilities for the draft? I'll consider whether your written responses were ready on schedule, or whether writers had to wait for them past the due date. And I'll take into account how engaged you were in the classroom discussions of drafts: were you contributing only to the discussion of drafts for which you wrote responses, or had you read and prepared to talk about all of the drafts?
Posted by senioritis at November 25, 2005 09:24 AM