A Selected Bibliography on Teacher Response
(from A Sourcebook for Responding to Student Writing)
Richard Straub
Florida State University

Books and Collections

Anson, Chris, ed. Writing and Response: Theory, Practice, Research. Urbana: NCTE, 1989.

Elbow, Peter, and Pat Belanoff. Sharing and Responding. New York: Random House, 1989.

Freedman, Sarah Warshauer. Response to Student Writing. Urbana: NCTE, 1987.

How to Handle the Paper Load. Classroom Practices in Teaching English 1979-1980. Urbana: NCTE, 1979.

Judine, Sister I. H. M., ed. A Guide for Evaluating Student Composition. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1965; ERIC ED 033 948.

Lawson, Bruce, Susan Sterr Ryan, and W. Ross Winterowd, eds. Encountering Student Texts: Interpretive Issues in Reading Student Writing. Urbana: NCTE, 1989.

Sorcinelli, Mary Deane, and Peter Elbow. Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997.

Straub, Richard, and Ronald F. Lunsford. Twelve Readers Reading: Responding to College Student Writing. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1995.

Straub, Richard. A Sourcebook for Responding to Student Writing. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1999.

Straub, Richard. The Practice of Response: Strategies for Commenting on Student Writing. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2000.

Reviews of Scholarship

Griffin, C.W. "Theory of Responding to Student Writing: The State of the Art." College Composition and Communication 33 (October 1982): 296-301.

Horvath, Brooke. "The Components of Written Response: A Practical Synthesis of Current Views." Rhetoric Review 2 (Janurary 1984): 136-56. Rpt. in Gary Tate, Edward P.J. Corbett, Nancy Myers, ed. The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1994.

Jerabek, Ross, and Daniel Dietrich. "Composition Evaluation: The State of the Art." College Composition and Communication 26 (May 1975): 183-86.

Knoblauch, C.H., and Lil Brannon. "Teacher Commentary on Student Writing: The State of the Art." Freshman English News 10 (Fall 1981): 1-4. Rpt. in Richard Graves, ed. Rhetoric and Composition: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Writers. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook, 1984.

Assigning and Responding to Student Writing

Elbow, Peter. "High Stakes and Low Stakes in Assigning and Responding to Writing." Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines, 5-13. See Sorcinelli and Elbow, 1997.

Larson, Richard L. "Making Assignments, Judging Writing, and Annotating Papers: Some Suggestions." Training the New Teacher of College Composition, 109-116. Ed. Charles W. Bridges. Urbana: NCTE, 1986.

Lindemann, Erika. "Making and Evaluating Writing Assignments." A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers, 2nd ed., 191-223. New York: Oxford UP, 1987.

Young, Art. "Mentoring, Modeling, Monitoring, Motivating: Response to Students' Ungraded Writing as Academic Conversation." Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines, 27-38. See Sorcinelli and Elbow, 1997.

Responding Theory and Practice

Anson, Chris. "The Artificial Art of Evaluating Writing." Journal of Teaching Writing 1 (Fall 1982): 159-69.

Anson, Chris, Joan Graham, David Jolliffe, Nancy Shapiro, Carolyn Smith. "Responding to Student Writing." Scenarios for Teaching Writing: Contexts for Discussion and Reflective Practice, 34-62. Urbana: NCTE, 1993.

Auten, Janet Gebhart. "Power and the Teacher's Pen: Talking about Teacher Response to Student Writing." The CEA Forum 28 (Summer 1998): 1-4.

Baumlin, James, and Tita French Baumlin. "Paper Grading and the Rhetorical Stance." Encountering Student Texts, 171-82. See Lawson, 1989.

Bazerman, Charles. "Reading Student Texts: Proteus Grabbing Proteus." Encountering Student Texts, 139-146. See Lawson, 1989.

Berkenkotter, Carol. "Student Writers and Their Sense of Authority over Texts." College Composition and Communication 35 (Oct 1984): 312-19.

Brannon, Lil and C.H. Knoblauch. "On Students' Rights to Their Own Texts: A Model of Teacher Response." College Composition and Communication 33 (May 1982): 157-66.

Chiseri-Strater, Elizabeth. "Evaluation as Acts of Reading, Response, and Reflection." Nuts and Bolts: A Practical Guide to Teaching College Composition, 179-202. Ed. Thomas Newkirk. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, Heinemann, 1993.

Connors, Robert J., and Andrea Lunsford. "Teachers' Rhetorical Comments on Student Papers." College Composition and Communication 44 (May 1993): 200-24.

Connors, Robert J., and Cheryl Glenn. "Responding to and Evaluating Student Essays." The St. Martin's Guide to Teaching Writing, 3rd ed. New York: St. Martin's, 1995.

Daiker, Donald. "Learning to Praise." Writing and Response: Theory, Practice, Research, 103-13. See Anson, 1989.

Danis, M. Francine. "The Voice in the Margins: Paper-Marking as Conversation." Freshman English News 15 (Winter 1987): 18-20.

Flynn, Elizabeth. "Learning to Read Student Papers from a Feminine Perspective." Encountering Student Texts, 49-58. See Lawson, 1989.

Fuller, David. "Teacher Commentary That Communicates: Practicing What We Preach in the Writing Class." Journal of Teaching Writing 6 (Fa/Wi 1987): 307-317.

Haswell, Richard. "Minimal Marking." College English 45 (October 1983): 600-04.

Hodges, Elizabeth. "Negotiating the Margins: Some Principles for Responding to Our Students' Writing, Some Strategies for Helping Students Read Our Comments." Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines, 77-89. See Sorcinelli and Elbow, 1997.

Hodges, Elizabeth. "The Unheard Voices of Our Responses to Students' Writing." Journal of Teaching Writing 11 (1992): 203-218.

Johnston, Brian. "Non-Judgmental Responses to Students' Writing." English Journal 71 (April 1982): 50-53.

Kehl, D. G. "The Art of Writing Evaluative Comments on Student Themes." English Journal 59 (1970): 972-80.

Knoblauch, C.H., and Lil Brannon. "Responding to Texts: Facilitating Revision in the Writing Workshop." Rhetorical Traditions and the Teaching of Writing, 118-50. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook, 1984.

Knoblauch, C.H., and Lil Brannon. "Teacher Commentary on Student Writing: The State of the Art." Freshman English News 10 (Fall 1981): 1-4.

Krest, Margie. "Monitoring Student Writing: How Not to Avoid the Draft." Journal of Teaching Writing 7 (Sp/Su 1988): 27-39.

Lees, Elaine. "Evaluating Student Writing." College Composition and Communication 30 (December 1979): 370-74.

Lunsford, Ronald F. "When Less Is More: Principles for Responding in the Disciplines." Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines, 91-104. See Sorcinelli and Elbow, 1997.

Mandel, Barrett John. "Teaching Without Judgment." Ideas for English 101: Teaching Writing in College. Ed. Richard Ohmann and W. B. Coley. Urbana: NCTE, 1975.

Moxley, Joseph. "Responding to Student Writing: Goals, Methods, Alternatives." Freshman English News 17 (Spring 1989): 3-4, 9-10.

Moxley, Joseph. "Teachers' Goals and Methods of Responding to Student Writing." Composition Studies: FEN 20 (Spring 1992): 17-33.

Murray, Patricia Y. "Teachers as Readers, Readers as Teachers." Encountering Student Texts, 73-85. See Lawson, 1989.

Onore, Cynthia. "The Student, the Teacher, and the Text: Negotiating Meanings through Response and Revision." Writing and Response, 231-260. See Anson, 1989.

Phelps, Louise Wetherbee. "Images of Student Writing: The Deep Structure of Teacher Response." Writing and Response, 37-66. See Anson, 1989.

Podis, Leonard A., and Joanne M. Podis. "Improving Our Responses to Student Writing: A Process-Oriented Approach." Rhetoric Review 5 (Fall 1986): 90-98.

Probst, Robert. "Transactional Theory and Response to Student Writing." Writing and Response, 68-79. See Anson, 1989.

Purves, Alan. "The Teacher as Reader: An Anatomy." College English 46 (March 1984): 259-265.

Robertson, Michael. "'Is Anybody Listening?': Responding to Student Writing." College Composition and Communication 37 (1986): 87-91.

Rothgery, David. "'So What Do We Do Now?' Necessary Directionality and the Writing Teacher's Response to Racist, Sexist, Homophobic Papers." College Composition and Communication 44 (May 1987): 87-91.

Schwegler, Robert. "The Politics of Reading Student Papers." The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary, 203-26. Ed. Richard Bullock and John Trimbur. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 1991.

Searle, Dennis, and David Dillon. "The Message of Marking: Teacher Written Responses to Student Writing at Intermediate Grade Levels." Research in the Teaching of English 14 (October 1980): 233-242.

Smith, Summer. "The Genre of the End Comment: Conventions in Teacher Responses to Student Writing." College Composition and Communication 48 (May 1997): 249-68.

Sommers, Nancy. "Responding to Student Writing." College Composition and Communication 33 (May 1982): 148-56.

Straub, Richard. "Teacher Response as Conversation: More than Casual Talk, An Exploration." Rhetoric Review 14 (1996): 374-98.

Straub, Richard. "The Concept of Control in Teacher Response: Defining the Varieties of 'Directive' and 'Facilitative' Commentary." College Composition and Communication 47 (May 1996): 223-51.

Welch, Kathleen. "Sideshadowing Teacher Response." College English 60 (April 1998): 374-95.

White, Edward M. "Post-Structural Literary Criticism and the Response to Student Writing." College Composition and Communication 35 (May 1984): 186-95.

Zak, Frances. "Exclusively Positive Responses to Student Writing." Journal of Basic Writing 9 (1990): 40-53.

Alternative Methods of Teacher Response

Anson, Chris. "In Our Own Voices: Using Recorded Commentary to Respond to Writing." Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines, 105-13. See Sorcinelli and Elbow, 1997.

Carnicelli, Thomas. "The Writing Conference: A One-to-One Conversation." Eight Approaches to Teaching Composition, 101-31. Ed. Timothy Donovan and Ben McClelland. Urbana: NCTE, 1980.

Harris, Muriel. Teaching One-to-One: The Writing Conference. Urbana: NCTE, 1986.

Hawisher, Gail, and Charles Moran. "Responding to Writing On-Line." Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines, 115-125. See Sorcinelli and Elbow, 1997.

Lauer, Janice. "Interpreting Student Writing." Encountering Student Texts, 121-28. See Lawson, 1989.

Murray, Donald. "The Listening Eye: Reflections on the Writing Conference." Learning by Teaching. Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook, 1982.

Newkirk, Thomas. "The First Five Minutes: Setting the Agenda in a Writing Conference." Writing and Response, 317-31. See Anson, 1989.

Rose, Alan. "Spoken versus Written Criticism of Student Writing: Some Advantages of the Conference Method." College Composition and Communication 33 (October 1982): 326-31.

Sommers, Jeffrey. "The Effects of Tape-Recorded Commentary on Student Revision: A Case Study." Journal of Teaching Writing 8 (Fall/Winter 1989): 49-75.

Sommers, Jeffrey. "The Writer's Memo: Collaboration, Response, and Development." Writing and Response, 174-186. See Anson, 1989.

Tobin, Lad. "Responding to Student Writing: Productive Tension in the Writing Conference." Writing Relationships: What Really Happens in the Composition Class, 40-56. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, Heinemann, 1993.

Rule, Rebecca. "Conferences and Workshops: Conversations on Writing in Process." Nuts and Bolts: A Practical Guide to Teaching College Composition, 43-65. Ed. Thomas Newkirk. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, Heinemann, 1993.

Effects of Teacher Comments

Burkland, Jill and Nancy Grimm. "Motivating Through Responding." Journal of Teaching Writing 5 (Fall 1986): 237-246.

Dohrer, Gary. "Do Teachers' Comments on Students' Papers Help?" College Teaching 39 (1991): 48-54.

Dragga, Sam. "The Effects of Praiseworthy Grading on Students and Teachers." Journal of Teaching Writing 7 (1988): 41-50.

Gee, Thomas. "Students' Responses to Teacher Comments." Research in the Teaching of English 6 (Fall 1972): 212-221.

Lynch, Catherine, and Patricia Klemans. "Evaluating Our Evaluations." College English 40 (October 1978): 166-180.

Sperling, Melanie, and S.W. Freedman. "A Good Girl Writes Like a Good Girl: Written Responses to Student Writing." Written Communication 4 (1987): 343-69.

Straub, Richard. "Students' Reactions to Teacher Comments: An Exploratory Study." Research in the Teaching of English 31 (February 1997): 91-119.

Ziv, Nina. "The Effect of Teacher Comments on the Writing of Four College Freshmen." New Directions in Composition Research, 362-80. Ed. Richard Beach and Lillian Bridwell. New York: Guilford, 1984.

Reading and Evaluating Student Writing

Coles, William E., Jr., and James Vopat. What Makes Writing Good: A Multiperspective. Lexington, MA: Heath, 1985.

Cooper, Charles R., and Lee Odell, eds. Evaluating Writing: Describing, Measuring, Judging. Urbana: NCTE, 1977.

Crowley, Sharon. "On Intention in Student Texts." Encountering Student Texts, 99-110. See Lawson, 1989.

Elbow, Peter. "Ranking, Evaluating, Liking: Sorting Out Three Forms of Judgment." College English 55 (1993): 187-206

Gere, Anne. "Written Composition: Toward a Theory of Evaluation." College English 31 (1980): 44-58.

Knoblauch, C.H., and Lil Brannon, "The Development of Writing Ability: Some Myths about Evaluation and Improvement." Rhetorical Traditions and the Teaching of Writing, 151-71. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook, 1984.

Thompson, Thomas. "Understanding Attitudes Toward Assessment: The Personality Factor." Assessing Writing 2 (1995): 191-206.

Winterowd, W. Ross. "The Drama of the Text." Encountering Student Texts, 21-33. See Lawson, 1989.

Grading

Corder, James. "Asking for a Text and Trying to Learn It." Encountering Student Texts, 89-98. See Lawson, 1989.

Elbow, Peter. "Grading Student Writing: Making It Simpler, Fairer, Clearer." Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines, 127-140. See Sorcinelli and Elbow, 1997.

Freedman, Sarah Warshauer. "Why Teachers Give the Grades They Do." College Composition and Communication 30 (May 1979): 161-64.

Irmscher, William F. "Evaluation." Teaching Expository Writing, 142-78. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1979.

Tobin, Lad. "Responding to Student Writing: What We Really Think About When We Think About Grades." Writing Relationships: What Really Happens in the Composition Class, 57-74. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, Heinemann, 1993.

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