Blog Numero 4

I found the grading and commenting activities greatly helpful, since this was the aspect I was feeling the most nervous/anxious about. While correcting papers, I was proud of how I was able to look at global issues first...though I really had to quell the urge at the beginning to start marking all the grammar errors in red pen. I think the toughest part about grading will come in getting into the student's head when reading their paper, trying to delve into their writing process. For example, it would have been very easy to write off the fishing memoir as unfocused and incomplete. Instead, it took fairly unconventional (for me, anyway) thinking to see the beginning of the memoir as a prewrite and to note his understanding of the assignment requirements and awareness of revision. Working from the global level down: will keep this in mind.