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Our Grading Contract for First-Year WritingFebruary 6th, 2013
Most courses that have writing in them ask us to write something, turn it in to the professor, and get back a grade. If we get comments with a grade, often those comments have to justify why we got the grade we did, but we may have felt that the comments didn’t help us understand that grade very well. Or perhaps in some classes, we received feedback on a first draft before our final drafts were graded. But the bottom line is: all of our writing usually is graded. We are writing for grades, not for feedback, not for developing the ideas we find most valuable, not for expressing those ideas in ways that we see as important. If we get comments from our teacher on your writing, typically, we are likely to read those comments so that we can figure out what the teacher wants, what will get a better grade. If we get comments or feedback from our colleagues in class, we may feel conflicted about listening to them or taking their advice. If they suggest something, would the teacher agree? What
