The Nature and Correlates of Law School Essay Grades. Study attempting to determine what characteristics of essays written by law students were most strongly associated with the grades given those essays by law professors. Responding to Student Writing. Also recommends peer review. Mallonee, Barbara C., and John R. Breihan.
Author describes results of faculty workshops and cross-curricular collaborations among faculty.
Discusses how to respond appropriately to preliminary drafts of student papers. Responding to Student Writing. Odell suggests that teachers' responses to student writing should identify and refine the strategies of students' mental processes. These strategies include focus, contrast, change, reference to sequence, reference to physical context, and classification. He analyzes several examples of student writing to explain useful response techniques.