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Responding to Student Writers
First Edition| ©2013 Nancy Sommers
A brief instructor resource, Nancy Sommers’Responding to Student Writers offers a model for thinking about response as a dialogue between students and teachers — and for thinking about the benefits of responding to writers as well as to their writing.
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Because teachers' comments shape student writers
Because teachers' comments shape student writers
A brief instructor resource, Nancy Sommers’Responding to Student Writers offers a model for thinking about response as a dialogue between students and teachers — and for thinking about the benefits of responding to writers as well as to their writing.
Features
Helps veteran teachers of writing as well as new adjuncts and part-timers to move from response as correcting writing to response as sharing a dialogue about writing
Includes strategies for promoting students’ role in a dialogue about their writing — such as assigning a "Dear Reader" letter and a list of revision goals
Features a case study — a dialogue between a teacher and a students that also includes the assignment, the rubric, two drafts, the teacher’s comments, and the student’s revision goals
Written by one of the most respected scholars in the field of composition and rhetoric, a former Braddock-Award winner who served as the principal investigator of the Harvard Study of Undergraduate Writing
Combines thoughtful pedagogy with a lively tone.
New to This Edition
"I love Sommers’s call to focus on the broad purpose of commenting rather than the minutiae of corrections. The overall message of Responding to Student Writers is fresh and relevant — an important reminder to reflect and revisit our role in the revision process."
— Jill Kronstadt, Montgomery College

Responding to Student Writers
First Edition| ©2013
Nancy Sommers
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Responding to Student Writers
First Edition| 2013
Nancy Sommers
Table of Contents
Contents
Note to fellow teachers
Introduction
Why comments matter
Considering a writer’s development
Seeing comments through students’ eyes
The call-and-response of commenting
1 Setting the scene for responding
Offering one lesson at a time
Understanding the purpose of comments
The dangers of overcommenting
Responding to rough versus final drafts
Finding the right tone
Developing a common language
Creating a link between classroom and comments
2 Engaging students in a dialogue about their writing
Establishing a role for students in the dialogue
Revising with comments
The Dear Reader letter
Making the most of comments
3 Writing marginal comments
Marginalia
Less is sometimes more
Developing a scale of concerns
4 Writing end comments
End comments on early drafts
End comments on final drafts
Taking students seriously
5 Managing the paper load
Focusing on student learning
Varying the purpose of comments
Varying the style of comments
Mentoring students to become thoughtful readers
Resisting the urge to correct grammar and punctuation errors
Finding a role for grading rubrics
6 A case study: One reader reading
Bibliography
Responding to student writers: Best practices
Authors

Nancy Sommers
Nancy Sommers, who has taught composition and directed composition programs for thirty years, now teaches in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. She led Harvard’s Expository Writing Program for twenty years, directing the first-year writing program and establishing Harvard’s WAC program. A two-time Braddock Award winner, Sommers is well known for her research and publications on student writing. Her articles “Revision Strategies of Student and Experienced Writers” and “Responding to Student Writing” are two of the most widely read and anthologized articles in the field of composition. Recently she has been exploring different audiences through blogging and through publishing in popular media. Sommers is the lead author on Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin’s, and is coauthor of Fields of Reading, Tenth Edition (2013).

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