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Breaking The Cycle: Using Reflective Activities To Transform Teacher Response, Anthony Edgington
Breaking The Cycle: Using Reflective Activities To Transform Teacher Response, Anthony Edgington
Journal of Response to Writing
This article explores the problems associated with a pedagogy of severity, which influences how teachers read and respond to student papers, and suggests that reflection, especially reflection-in-action, can be useful to writing instructors as they respond to their students’ texts. Reflection-in-action, or the reflection that occurs while one is still in the process of completing a task, offers teachers and students the opportunity to reflect on the value of written comments while still possessing the chance to create effective and informative student texts and teacher comments. After exploring how reflection can benefit response, experiences with two reflective activities are given …
A Catalytic Event For Response Research? Introducing Our New Journal: Editor’S Introduction, Dana R. Ferris
A Catalytic Event For Response Research? Introducing Our New Journal: Editor’S Introduction, Dana R. Ferris
Journal of Response to Writing
My own interest in launching this journal arose in the spring of 2012 when I taught a new doctoral seminar on response to student writing. I had a very bright and engaged group of students who, for the major assignments in the course, reviewed the existing literature and made research proposals related to their own interests around the broad topic of response. Their topics and ideas were fascinating and on the cutting edge, but there was a problem: In several instances, there was little (or no) recent research for them to review.