Practical & Creative Writing Lessons : How to Manage Grading Papers

[gmayer66]

A simple idea: Don't write comments on the paper itself. Use a word processor to write numbered comments (using an outline), and only mark the item number on the paper itself. Return the student's work with a stapled printout of your comments.

That way (1) you always have enough room to write comments; (2) you can write plentiful, meaningful comments; (3) you can copy and paste repetitive comments; (4) your comments are legible; (5) typing is FASTER than writing by hand.

[MrJohndoakes]

Came to this from the Rate Your Students blog. . . this is the kind of crap they tell you in teaching school and yes, it's utterly useless. How do you set your mood to "indifferent"? Who is dumb enough to think they can grade a load of papers in two hours and futhermore, who stops in the middle of a paper to go out fishing for the day?

This is like one of those WWII anti-VD films that encourages willpower over using a condom.

[hgg1974]

You have got to be kidding me. WTF kind of advice is this?

[rohina]

Dude, this is really craptacularly useless advice.