Annaliisa's Questions for 7/24

1) Darker writes, "[P]raise, however beneficial as a remedy for apprehension and as a motivator of student writing, is more easily enjoined than put into practice ... [Dragga] concludes that teacher training must emphasize explicit criteria for praiseworthy grading. The title of this article implies that praise does not flow readily from the marking pens of writing teachers; it must be learned" (156). What do you think this training would look like for instructors? Do you think your writing background up until this point has prepared you to evaluate in a manner that emphasizes what's going right in the writing?

2) Did any of these readings cause you to relate more as a student who still has their writing evaluated and graded than the intended audience of an instructor?