<p>When you receive graded papers, are you satisfied with the level of feedback that you get?</p>
<p>Or do you wish that your instructors would provide more guidance and writing instruction? If the latter, specifically what kind of guidance do you think could help you become a better writer?</p>
<p>What about your university's writing center? How helpful have they been?</p>
<p>Never got anything less than an A on a paper. As long as it said “A” on my paper I just put it in my bag and never put a second thought to it. </p>
<p>I’ve never used the writing center, but I know one of my friends has. They don’t really help you. </p>
<p>I was more concerned about the level of feedback I got on my math homework. </p>
<p>I think people should read Stephen King’s “On Writing”. I think people should read more. I don’t read a lot of books, but I am constantly reading information online that I need to make sense of. I usually read The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, etc. It’s good preparation for the GRE.</p>
<p>I actually had this teacher who gave corrected papers that can’t be understood. Even if your grade is an A, she still managed to put a little bit of feedback which was really hard to read. I misinterpreted the remarks to be very remorseful, but I found out that those were good points for me. This was my only reason why I needed to consult her most of the time.</p>
<p>Although, there are times when I needed to talk to her because of giving bad grade. I wanted to know her basis why gave me that almost failing grade.</p>
<p>Anyway, being a good writer is being able to think outside of the box. Your teachers are just there to guide you while you do your writing. You may be able to write really good, but creating good ideas to write gives a good plus to become a better writer :)!</p>
<p>I hope these help.</p>
<p>Doris</p>
<p>All of my papers thus far have been A’s, so no feedback at all. The only feedback I did get was from a 100-level English professor, who was really great and was really involved with me, even with my A’s. He loved my writing but still offered tips on how to make it A++ material (our class had a ‘subject’ and I was unfamiliar with it so I struggled in that aspect too).</p>
<p>I know I’m not the perfect writer so I do wish that some profs had the time to really hardcore review my paper minus the one I mentioned above.</p>
<p>In just one year of college so far, my daughter has had both types of professors - ones who just write a grade and ones who carefully comment on various aspects of the paper. Regardless of the grade, the comments are usually helpful and I wish more professors spent the time commenting. Even a comment that says good thought or what about this idea etc. shows that the professor took the time to read the paper carefully.</p>
<p>One of my professors first quarter was notorious for just writing a grade and not elaborating on why you got that grade, even if you went to office hours and asked. Sure enough, for the first paper I went in to ask him for feedback and his response was that that was the grade he felt I deserved. I really wish that he had elaborated; as kiddie said, feedback is useful even if you got a high grade.</p>
<p>On the other hand, my second quarter I had a TA that gave detailed comments on every paper. That was really helpful to knowing why exactly you got that high grade or got those points deducted. </p>
<p>The following quarter I had another TA that gave a little feedback, but not the detail that the TA the previous quarter did. That was still a lot more helpful than my professor first quarter.</p>
<p>Overall, thus far I’m satisfied with the feedback I get. It’s annoying when you get someone that doesn’t give feedback at all, but most at least make a comment at the end of the paper from what I’ve seen.</p>
<p>I am/was (about to graduate, done with my major) a French major, and I had a lot of teachers who would slap an “A” on a paper and not elaborate further. It always annoyed me since I KNOW my French is not perfect and want my mistakes corrected. I’d rather get back a paper dripping in red ink so I know what to fix/improve on! I ended up gently asking a few of my teachers to be a bit more nitpicky where my grammar is concerned since I really want to know when I make even small mistakes, and most of them were fortunately happy to oblige.</p>