{"id":63,"date":"2015-04-23T03:15:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T09:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/?p=63"},"modified":"2019-09-10T18:48:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T00:48:57","slug":"sip-1-13-written-feedback-to-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/sip-1-13-written-feedback-to-students\/","title":{"rendered":"SIP 1.13: Written Feedback to Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice?<\/h2>\n<p>Giving students feedback on their writing is one of the most important ways that we can individualize instruction. It can be easy to lose sight of this, however, when we are confronted with a stack of student papers and feel pressure to focus our comments on justifying a grade.<\/p>\n<h2>Tak<a href=\"http:\/\/stmedia.startribune.com\/images\/ows_139613708765902.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-174 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2015\/05\/ows_139613708765902-300x129.jpg\" alt=\"College professor handing back papers to students\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2015\/05\/ows_139613708765902-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2015\/05\/ows_139613708765902-1024x440.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2015\/05\/ows_139613708765902.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>e a SIP of this: Manageable and Instructional Written Feedback<\/h2>\n<p>Separating the grading and commenting aspects of giving feedback by using a rubric or grade sheet that allows you to simply identify qualities of the paper that relate to the grade and reserving your comments on the paper for giving feedback that will help the student improve their writing or thinking. Here are some tips to help you individualize the instruction you give in your feedback:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just as you would in the classroom, don\u2019t try to teach your student everything at once. On one paper, you might focus your comments on only two or three things, such as a particular pattern of error, a logical flaw in reasoning, and suggestions for developing support for the argument.<\/li>\n<li>Comment on strengths as well as weaknesses. For example, you might commend a student for using strong source material, and then make a comment on how to better integrate it into the paper.<\/li>\n<li>As frustrating as grammar, punctuation, and mechanics errors are to us, correcting those errors in our students\u2019 papers does not help our students learn to stop making those errors. You can save yourself a lot of time by NOT marking all those errors and instead writing a comment such as, \u201cI noticed many sentence structure errors in this paper. I marked them in the first paragraph. Please take this paper to the Writing Center to work with a tutor on sentence structure.\u201d (FYI, here\u2019s the Writing Center\u2019s website: <a href=\"http:\/\/msudenver.edu\/writectr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/msudenver.edu\/writectr\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Consider giving feedback in a form other than writing. For example, some students respond better to feedback that is recorded. You can easily record feedback using a free app like TinyVox (<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/tinyvox-pro-voice-memos-for\/id401071992?mt=8)%20or free software like Audacity (http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/audacity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/tinyvox-pro-voice-memos-for\/id401071992?mt=8) or free software like Audacity (http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/audacity\/<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Still thirsty? Take\u00a0another SIP of Manageable and Instructional Written Feedback<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cTips for Commenting on Student Writing\u201d from the Teaching Center at Washington University: <a href=\"http:\/\/teachingcenter.wustl.edu\/strategies\/Pages\/commenting-on-writing.aspx#.VTcK2iHBzGc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/teachingcenter.wustl.edu\/strategies\/Pages\/commenting-on-writing.aspx#.VTcK2iHBzGc<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cResponding to Student Writing\u201d from the Harvard Writing Project: <a href=\"http:\/\/writingproject.fas.harvard.edu\/pages\/responding-student-writing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/writingproject.fas.harvard.edu\/pages\/responding-student-writing<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cKinds of Comments to Make on Student Papers\u201d: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quinnipiac.edu\/prebuilt\/pdf\/wac\/database_comments_student_papers_0811.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.quinnipiac.edu\/prebuilt\/pdf\/wac\/database_comments_student_papers_0811.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cAudio Recording Feedback for Students\u201d: <a href=\"http:\/\/teaching.nmc.edu\/?p=2332\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/teaching.nmc.edu\/?p=2332<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Giving students feedback on their writing is one of the most important ways that we can individualize instruction. It can be easy to lose sight of this, however, when we are confronted with a stack of student papers and feel pressure to focus our comments on justifying a grade. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/sip-1-13-written-feedback-to-students\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[232,112,15,154,18,150],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sip-post","tag-comments","tag-feedback","tag-formative-assessment","tag-grading","tag-motivation","tag-students","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}