The Complexities of Responding to Student Writing

Students resist the Marginal question because it's not an answer, says Richard Haswell. The pithy teacher efficient mark lacks explanation, he adds. Students are reluctant to change their rhetorically inept ways as they see themselves as independent and free to use language as they wish," writes Haswell. "We need to be doing more than just saying you've missed 10 to commas until you get all your commas in place"