This chapter articulates what I have often thought about grades but was never able to describe. I have had the opportunity to grade rough draft essays for a teacher and found it very frustrating because I was not given any criteria by which to judge the work. I thought it was just my inexperience that made it so hard. I didn’t realize that there was so much variation from teacher to teacher and school to school. I ended up doing the right thing by accident. Instead of deciding what letter grade to give them I just found the errors in their work and gave them suggestions for saying things more clearly, and praising the things that were good in their work. As it turns out this was the best feedback I could give. Sometimes though the essay was so scattered I didn’t know where to begin. In those cases I suppose the best thing to do would be to have the student go back to the drawing board and rewrite with more organization in mind then try again to edit for those things the student didn’t catch.
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