Editing with Creativity: Bringing Writing Feedback Back into the Classroom

Randall Rightmire

UCSB ESL/Linguistics

SBCC ESL

rightmire@linguistics.ucsb.edu

rightmire@sbcc.edu

Los Padres CATESOL Fall 2008 Conference

October 11, 2008

Abstract: What do ESL writers learn as they revise their papers? Do they understand their teachers' corrections and comments? Can they take the grammar and editing rules that we teach them and independently apply them to a self-editing task? In this demonstration, the presenter will show how writing feedback can be blended into a classroom lesson, not just as a take-home assignment or an addition to the "circular file." Writing feedback lessons at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels will be demonstrated.

• Beginning ESL Writers
• “Instant Editing”
• Advanced (CC) Writers
• From The Book To The Paper
• Example Textbook Exercise
• Example Student Paper
• Editing With “Team Captains”
• Advanced (University) Writers
• Enhanced Feedback
• Insert Comments
• Insert Web Links
• Reflective Revising
• Step Two: Student’s Comments
• Variation: Reflective Revising Log
• Variation: Insert Bookmarks
• Self-Evaluation
• Instructions To Students
• Example Student Evaluation
• Presentations
• Instructions
• Example Group Presentation