Different readers are always going to pick up on different things and respond in different ways, and no one reading or response is going to address every-thing that might well be addressed. in the way it might best be addressed.
Not all readers are the same. It will be hard to please everyone with your writing. It is good to get multiple opinions, but it may be hard to use all of the suggestions given. People are going to have their own way of writing.
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It is important to not make decisions for the writer. You are not the writer, you are only giving your personal feedback. The goal of the reader is to make suggestions that the writer could follow.
! k makes twenty-two comments on the paper-seventeen statements in the margins and live more in the end note.
The comments written out in full leave little room for misinterpreting. I like how he wrote down many ideas for the writer to think about.
It's amazing how they all start coming together when you look at your response as a way of talking with the writer seriously about the writing. recording how you experience the words on the page and giving the writer something to think about for revision.
Thought out critiques can help a writer grow. Allowing the writer to understand what you are interpreting as a reader can be a form of valuable feedback.
Get specific. Don't rely on general state-ments alone.
Let the writer know exactly what you are thinking. You should give a clear perspective instead of giving general statements. General statements do not usually help the writer.
Write most of your comments out in full statements. Instead of writing two or three words, write seven or eight.
Writing only a few words does not give the writer a clear understanding of what is being asked. When commenting, state exactly what you think is wrong or how it should be fixed.
The best comments will ring familiar even as they lead the writer to try to do something she hasn't quite done before, or done in quite the same way. They'll be comforting and understandable even as they create some need to do more, a need to figure out some better way.
Comments should not tell the writer to change their entire paper. They should guide them. I love receiving feedback that I would have never thought of myself. That feedback then helps me on my other papers.
Hone in on the writer's particular aims in the writing.
When reading a paper you should be able to understand the goals of the writer. Focus more on how the writer writes instead of trying to make it your own.
First, don't set out to seek and destroy all errors and problems in the writing. You're not an editor. You're not a teacher. You're not a cruise missile.
When someone reviews my paper, I feel like I need to change everything that they don't like. I would want everyone to like my writing, but I know I cannot please everyone. While editing, I try to leave suggestions and not tell them directly what to do.
But friends don't let friends think their writing is the best thing since The Great Gatsby and they don't lead them to think that all is fine and well when it's not.
I tend to tell people their writing is okay when I don't like it. I don't want to tell them to change their entire paper. Its hard for me to be honest when someone put so much work into a paper.
Satisfy the teacher and no surpnses for the writer.
Many students tend to only write what the teacher wants them to write. They do not show their true feelings in their writing; they only care about the grade. Knowing what the teacher wants does making writing the essay easy, but it take away the meaning behind it.
I spent two days just riffling uncertainly through the dictionary’s pages.
This reminds me of how we learned how to read as a child. As children, we memorized sight words until they became fluent. This is what he did to start to learn to read.
But every book I picked up had few sentences which didn’t contain anywhere from one to nearly all of the words that might as well have been in Chinese.
I can't imagine what it would be like to have many ideas, but not be able to express them through written language. He had the perseverance to want to teach himself and he created that opportunity in prison. This makes the reader glad that he finally had the chance to learn.
I became increasingly frustrated at not being able to express what I wanted to convey in letters that I wrote, especially those to Mr. Elijah Muhammad.
The phrase, "increasing frustrated at not being able to express what I want to convey" allows the reader to understand his emotions with only having to read the second sentence. This then allows the reader to understand his point of view and emotions throughout the excerpt.