Comments on some of these issues could serve as useful feedback to teachers, and could be very helpful when planning further instruction. Reading the letters When I receive the students' letters I simply read them. I do not correct their errors. I tell them this when I set them the task. Resisting the urge to correct is sometimes quite difficult for teachers.
Old habits are hard to break.
Students also find an absence of corrections on their pages a little strange at first, and some request that I do correct their work. I tell them that there is ample opportunity for them to have their writing corrected in the other writing activities that we do in class. Very soon they agree and accept the no-correction policy. For the reasons mentioned above, I do not assign a grade to the letters. Furthermore, not grading the work means that there can be no comparing of grades, and hence competition is prevented.