Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Revisions and Editing After teaching a unit on editing and revising, Ms. Minturn asks her students to pull out a hard copy of an essay they composed earlier in the year. She breaks the class into pairs and asks them to read and suggest edits and revisions on their partners' essays. A few students who didn't put much effort into the essays before have a lot of edits and revisions. Her students that did good jobs on their essays earlier in the year only have a few revisions and edits. She collects the revisions and grades each student according to a rubric on the effectiveness of his or her editing. How should she score the revisions? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) In order to encourage the students to put forth more effort with editing and revising Ms. Minturn could develop a checklist which includes a big portion of the grade being her observation of work put forth during the class time given with the partner. This would allow for participation to be included in the grade also.