Problem-Solution Essay Feedback

I finished reading almost all of your essays (T25) and am enumerating the following comments for your reference:

  • I’m glad a few of you made comments, substantial ones, not simply the ones about grammar but also, more importantly, those regarding the structure and organization of the essay.  More people should have utilized the comment feature to raise concerns and to offer encouragement.  Indeed, most of my comments were concerned with essay organization.
  • Comments should be clear statements, either of something you have noticed or of something you have corrected.  That said, many students made corrections or highlighted words without documenting what the changes were nor their purposes.  That style of editing doesn’t help readers to understand weaknesses so that they can be improved for next time.
  • In general, the organization of the essays is improving.  Introductory paragraphs actual employ a style (there were many controversies and questions posed), though I reiterate the need to stick to one, not two or three, when constructing the background information.  Scopes, and topic sentences, too, are becoming more lucid; but conclusions are weak because they do not reemphasize main points, nor do they tend to look into the future to explore consequences.
  • Make sure you send the edited work back to its original owner and not to me alone.  What’s more, you could just add me, and the writer as collaborators so we can all view and edit the same document.
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