Publication Date
2016
Keywords
L2 writers, teacher, reflective writing
Abstract
It’s exciting to already be introducing the first issue of our second volume year of this new journal! We’ve been receiving positive feedback on volume 1 and great contributions for this and upcoming issues. In this issue, we present two research articles and two teaching articles. In the first piece, “Papers are Never Finished, Just Abandoned: The Role of Written Teacher Comments in the Revision Process.” M. Sidury Christiansen and Joel Bloch examine the delicate dynamics occurring between teachers’ written comments and subsequent revisions. Their study follows four students receiving written comments from one teacher over a series of three papers and two revisions per paper. The four students were postgraduate science or engineering students, all international students taking an ESL writing course at a university in the U.S. The teacher feedback took the form of marginal comments using the Microsoft Word® Comments tool as well as an add-on set of macros allowing the teacher to standardize commonly made comments (and customize them as needed).
Recommended Citation
Ferris, Dana R.
(2016)
"Editor’s Introduction,"
Journal of Response to Writing: Vol. 2:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/journalrw/vol2/iss1/1