Responding to Student WRiting (resources)

John Bean's _Engaging Ideas_ discusses important insights on the subject of responding to student writing. Another good source is Richard Straub's _A Sourcebook for Responding to Student Writing_.

Nancy Sommer's "Responding to Student Writing."

Erika Lindemann's _A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers_ has an excellent
chapter on this.

I also recommend Rich Haswell's 2006 article in _Across the
Disciplines_ : "The Complexities of Responding to Student Writing; or,
Looking for Shortcuts via the Road of Excess";

http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/articles/haswell2006.cfm

That's the same Rich Haswell who wrote "Minimal Marking," 1983 College
English 45.6, 600-604. This would be another "must read" for your
faculty.

Barbara Walvoord and Virginia Anderson, _Effective
Grading_. One of the best things about the book is the sample scoring
guides from various disciplines.

http://bibliolicious.wordpress.com/tag/teacher-response/

Pat Belanoff and Peter Elbow put together a great summary of strategies of responding to student writing in a nice little book ("Sharing and Responding") that came shrink wrapped with their textbook "A Community of Writers" (McGraw-Hill,1989). Strategies are sorted into five categories, roughly from non-judgmental to judgmental or evaluative:

1. No Responding: Sharing

2. Descriptive Responding

3 Analytic Responding

4. Reader Based Responding

5. Criterion Based or Judgment Based Responding

12 Readers Reading: Responding to College Student Writing, Richard Straub & Ronald F. Lunsford, Hampton Press, 1995.