Tutorial Task 7

RESPONDING TO STUDENT'S WRITING

Instructions: Read the essay distributed. Decide what to do with the errors. Are you going to use  written comments, talk to the writer or use checklist? Will you encourage peer edit before the next submission? What is your follow-up activity to deal with the most common errors found in your essay?

In responding towards student's writing, I am personally will talk to the writer or the students as she/he will acquire a clear view based from what I have been highlighted for some particular problems within his/her writing. I strongly believe that by applying this mechanism, the students would automatically react to the encouragement given from us and slowly they will build their self-confidence in order to correct the mistakes. And most importantly, peer edit is necessarily need to be practiced among the students before the submission as it will foster helping to fix one another weaknesses especially between the average and the high-ranked student, hence a huge barrier or a gap around them won't be exist within the class atmosphere. Well, for this particular writing which was written by a foreign student from China, the most common error I found in such essay is too much of run-on sentences and comma splices which mostly vivid the problem of bad sentence structure. The suitable follow-up activity is that I will prepare   few sentences which contains independent clauses while the students have to correct the mistakes by adding periods or semicolons and capitalizing correctly.

EXAMPLE

Run-on sentence	Thain and Donna were on the way to a yard sale an old man waved to them.
Answers	Thain and Donna were on the way to a yard sale. An old man waved to them.
	Thain and Donna were on the way to a yard sale; an old man waved to them
	Thain and Donna were on the way to a yard sale, and old man waved to them.