Commenting on student work

From WPA-L, fall 2009:

O'Neill and Fife's "Listening to Students: Contextualizing Response to
Student Writing" (Comp Studies 27.2) and "Moving Beyond the Written Comment:
Narrowing the Gap between Response Practice and Research" (CCC 48.2).

One of my favorite resources on response is Brian Huot's chapter "Reading Like a Teacher: Toward a Theory of Response" in his book (Re)articulation Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning. It provides a snapshot of some of the big ideas in response since the '80s and creates a framework for thinking about response that is comprehensive but manageable. I read the chapter this summer with the new TAs at Florida State, and it generated rich conversation. I was especially impressed by how much they engaged with the text even though it's not a "how-to manual" for response.