You may encounter a long downloading time for the home page because of a large graphic. However, you can move on while the graphic is still forming by using the elevator on the side of your screen. Student Papers A survey at the University of Kentucky asked students about the value of instructor comments on papers. These students believe that praise promotes better writing. Useful comments help them improve by identifying grammatical errors, addressing ideas or content, and cautioning against unsuccessful writing strategies.
Students generally dislike extensive comments or excessively brief remarks and symbols.
Symbols are a problem when an instructor fails to provide descriptions of them. Faculty members surveyed at the same university doubted that students care about instructor comments. The student survey results indicate that they do. A brief report of these surveys by Kersell and Rhode was presented in The Teaching Professor . We do not know how Waterloo students would rank the importance of these nine techniques.