How
to Improve Student Writing
Writing teachers don’t want to
waste their time. They have a stack of papers to correct and they want
to give the kind of feedback that will improve student writing. Recent
research suggests that the best feedback is comprehensive, and recent
advances in technology make it easier for teachers to follow this
advice.
Most
Effective Feedback
Bitchener and Knoch (2008) conducted a study
in which students received different amounts of feedback on their
writing. Their research found that student writing improved the most
when they received a combination of
- direct feedback on specific problems in
their writing, - meta-feedback on how to improve the
organization of their essays, and - oral feedback on their progress. …
