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Responding to Student Writers

Written from one teacher to another, Nancy Sommers' Responding to Student Writersoffers a model for thinking about response as a dialogue between students and teachers — and for thinking about the benefits of responding to writers as well as to their writing. Braddock Award-winning Nancy Sommers has taught composition and run composition programs for more than three decades; she currently teaches writing and mentors future teachers in Harvard's Graduate School of Education. In this resource, which is based on her research and her travels to two- and four-year colleges and universities, she focuses on the roles that teacher feedback plays in writers' development and offers strategies for moving away from responding as correcting. This is a free resource for instructors.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 64 pages

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