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!) While grading for the quality instead of quantity of revisions would work, next time Ms. Minturn does this, I would suggest that she give students guidelines for what they should look for when revising and editing. She should create a checklist for students to use during this process to ensure that they are looking for a variety of ways to improve their essays. Some students would focus only on grammatical errors, while others might focus on ideas and elaboration. Making the criteria clear up front would help with the grading issues for this.