All you have to do is ask each student what kind of feedback he or she wants. You can include these questions in either your weekly emails or your 'How are you doing' emails. Do you want extensive feedback on your paper? Or do you want moderate feedback on your paper? Or do you want no feedback on your paper? In this way, you can save time so that students who don't want any feedback you just give them a grade and fill out the rubric. Caution: Many schools require that each graded student paper have student feedback. If that is the case, you can just give less feedback to students who want less feedback or say they want no feedback.
You can ask a public forum discussion question where students can talk about their grammar/writing weaknesses so then you can take note the kind of feedback your class wants from reading the forums.
"What kind of grammar mistakes did your previous teachers point out you make? Or are you the perfect writer with no grammar mistakes?" I used to get all kinds of answers,but nobody ever said they were the 'perfect writer with no grammar mistakes :)'
After you have graded their papers, you can have students integrate their mistakes and correct their papers, and then the students send you the corrected papers which you grade. Have the students highlight the mistakes that they corrected so that you know what they corrected. This method was instituted by one of my dear colleagues, Carol Froisy. She called this method, "The After Action Assessment Method". By having students integrate their mistakes into their next paper, then this forces students to pay attention to the feedback you gave them.
And then ask students they have any additional questions they have and need help with. When you invite students to dialogue with you you are creating a viable learning community I will go into what a learning community is in my next post.
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