I know that we are suppose to blog about our I-search papers this week, but I just had to share with you the experience I had while grading one of the papers from Casey's class.
I had a paper from a student, who wrote in his letter that he sucked at writing and that I could give him a "written smack in the head" if I felt the need! As I read his letter, it was easy to tell that he had NO confidence when it came to writing. I started reading his paper (which was on how to write a children's novel) and his introduction was good, then starting in the second paragraph of the first page was a cited quote from encyclopedia.com on the history of the children's novel. The cited quote went on for three and a half more pages. Word for word. And there were more paragraphs and paragraphs of cited quotes from different sources. He provided very little of his own words and thoughts and it seemed like he just wanted a good paper, like he didn't want to be embarrassed. (I am, of course, giving him the benefit of the doubt here!!)
So, my question to all of you is how would you approach this situation in terms of the 6 + 1 scoring guide. Any suggestions??? I have given him plenty of written response on what he should do (or not do), but I'm not sure how to score it with the guide, or if I even should. (I'm leaning towards the last one and providing him an explanation on why he didn' receive a 6 + 1 score.) That's the short version of the story....I found the whole experience pretty interesting myself!!
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I had to grade 4 papers and i thought they were all really badly put together. I tried to make as many suggestions as i could and it looks like i tore up the paper, but they were really just suggestions. As for the 6+1, it was so hard to just put a grade on a paper like that not knowing the students or how much they have worked on it. Hopefully you will have a good time grading them!
I agree. The 6+1 needs revised to reflect proper citation. I had the same problem with all three of my papers. It's as if they expected that because they said they did "research" we should leave it at that and go on with our lives. It's almost if they were never taught how to cite when you see it happen with every paper you get. And really, does anyone consider most of these websites as reputible? I surely don't. What happened to making students use actual sources instead of letting them laze (Is that a word?, if not, I get credit for the creation) their way through a "college" composition course?
~Stan
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