Dear classes,
After reading all of your blog posts from class on Thursday, I am pleased with the direction your thinking is moving in. Some of you did very well; others are almost there. Keep working hard, and you will continue to grow as a reader, writer, and thinker.
Students with excellent responses did the following:
-Used lots of details, and then analyzed them
-Quoted directly from the text, and analyzed the words themselves
-Provided examples, both personal and applicable to the text
-Answered "Why?"
-Used appropriate grammar/capitalization/underlining/quotation marks/spelling
-Organized their response sensibly
Students with average responses did the following:
-Provided few examples
-Just began to analyze
-Had various grammar/spelling/etc. errors
-Used more summary than analysis of rhetoric
Students with poor responses did the following:
-Discussed only subject matter and not rhetoric
-Summarized
-Had many errors/typos/etc.
-Used poor organizational strategies
-Provided no details/specifics
Here are some common mistakes. Look them up in your manual, or ask about them in class:
-Capitalization
-Quotes and Italics
-How to address the writer (first by full name; after that by last name)
-Difference between summary and analysis
I'll be looking for these issues in your future writing.
Good work. Keep it up!
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Dear kate,
ReplyDeleteI think it would be a great idea and helpful to us if you could print out our responses and let us know individually how we did. This way we can identify and improve on our flaws.