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Summer Smith. The Genre of the End Comment: Conventions in Teacher Responses to Student Writing.

Smith, Summer. The Genre of the End Comment: Conventions in Teacher Responses to Student Writing." CCC 48.2 (1997): 249-268.

Abstract:

Identifying the "end comment genre," Smith inquires into the features, patterns, and effectiveness of teacher end comments on student essays. Her study sample contains 208 end comments collected from ten teaching assistants at Penn State. Her analysis leads to suggestions for resisting stable conventions of commenting in order to achieve more effective communication between teacher and student about the student's writing.

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