Responding to students writing Q&R

Question: Is teacher’s commentary really helpful?
Sommers talks about how teachers commentary on student writing can be effective in improving their writing. Comments are “a guide to composing” which leads to the idea that comments can be helpful to students when they are editing their essays. It tell students exactly what needs to be modified. Sometimes though, teachers comments can be a little to broad and leave students in question of what they need to fix in their essays. Sometimes teachers comments are worded in way that makes it difficult for students to understand what they need to fix leaving them instead in a worse position rather than a better position when it comes to writing. Teachers make mistakes as well and sometimes their comments don’t even make sense but the students feel like the teacher is always right so they try to fix what might not even need fixing. Commenting is a huge catastrophic dilemma that students face when it comes to trying to improve their writing.
In my opinion, students should choose which comments they want to take to heart and actually try to fix and which comments are completely unorthodox and should just be trashed and forgotten. Students, by the time they’ve reached college, should have a good understanding of what good writing is and therefore should be able to tell the good helpful comments from the bad pointless comments. Some of the teacher’s commentary can be really helpful. For example, your comments Shoney are really helpful on our drafts. Well to me they are. You ask me questions about my paper I would never even think to ask myself. You help me understand exactly where my essay needs fixing and what I need to fix. On the other hand, you also say that you don’t have time to comment on every single thing you want because of lack of time. I know you hit the biggest most problematic parts of my essay but it still doesn’t cover everything. Obviously I think your commentary is very important and helpful but in a way I think its still the student’s responsibility to make sure they proof read and make their own editing. Students shouldn’t just rely on the teacher to do the editing for them through their comments.

Getting it ‘write:’ Essay styles vary by country, creating difficulties for international students sq&r

Summary: This essay is about how international students have trouble adopting to the writing styles in the United States. This article involves the differences in the ways nations around the world write essays differently. This article focuses on how these differences in writing styles of international students affect the student education at Tufts University. In the United states we focus primarily on things like the thesis sentence, introductions, and conclusions. Every essay has to follow a certain format. Its all very structured and traditional. “The American way of Writing” Its starts at a young age and then it just evolves. Its called the “five-paragraph essay” which we all know consists of an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. To international students this sometimes comes off as something completely new to them. They have no background as to how to write Americanized essay and this can sometimes end up being an issue especially in college. Professors sometimes don’t understand this and thus international students are placed at a disadvantage in comparison to someone who is native to the United States.
Question: Is a language barrier important when it comes to writing? Do students born in the United States have the advantages of being better writers than someone from another country?
Response: My essay involves different styles of writing and how some students may be good at writing in a certain style such as poetry or fictional writing etc. I chose this article because i thought it could broaden my question and now I can even include language barrier as a disadvantage when it comes to writing styles. I could say that students from different countries have different writing styles and incorporate that into my writing draft. I learned a lot about how writing styles differ between nations. I always thought writing was a global thing. I always thought that writing was the same in America and it was in China but through this article I have learned otherwise. "The Chinese have something called the ‘Eight-Legged Essay,'" Lowe said. "It's this extremely ancient, complex form in which you as a writer are supposed to explain to the reader why you chose this topic, why it's interesting and what past scholars have said about the topic, etc. To an American reader, it may seem like ‘Where's your point?' But it's just another very different style of writing." I thought that was interesting because it shows how us Americans think as writers. We’ve all been taught the same basic things and people in China have apparently been taught a different form of writing. It does make it wrong. Its just different. I definitely want to add styles of other countries to my draft two and expand my question to involve not the United States but the world as a whole.