Peer- and Self-Editing Resources

I’m giving a talk soon (link to come) on strategies to be a better editor, and I wanted to collect the sources I’m using for that talk here.

I cannot find an article I read in graduate school that recommended never marking more than 3–5 corrections per page in order to not overwhelm the student. If someone knows that one, send me a note.

• Boggs, Jull. “Effects of Teacher-Scaffolded and Self-Scaffolded Corrective Feedback Compared to Direct Corrective Feedback on Grammatical Accuracy in English L2 Writing.” Journal of Second Language Writing , 46 (2019).
• Ferris, D., & Roberts, B. “Error Feedback in the L2 Writing Classes: How Explicit Does It Need to Be?” Journal of Second Language Writing , 10 (2001).
• Ferris, D. “The ‘Grammar Correction’ Debate in L2 Writing:
  Where are we, and where do we go from here? (and what do we do in the meantime . . .?)” Journal of Second Language Writing , 13 (2004).
• Mao, Shiman Shae and Crosthwaite, Peter. “Investigating Written Corrective Feedback: (Mis)alignment of Teachers’ Beliefs and Practice.” Journal of Second Language Writing , 45 (2019): 46–60.
• Locally Sourced: Writing Across the Curriculum Sourcebook is a really wonderful open textbook. I especially made use of their chapter on ESL Writers.
• I’m very thankful for another open textbook, University Academic Writing for International Students: A Usage-based Approach , especially the chapters with example student writing.
• Central Michigan University has an excellent guide to better writing grading.
• Professor Thomas Guskey on grading versus comments.
• A thoughtful blog entry from Matthew Cheney on his evolving approach to his own teaching of writing.
• IUP put together a well-organized overview of the conclusions from Dr. Julie Reynolds research.
• Washington University has an extensive walk-through of the entire peer-review process .
• I always give “Shitty First Drafts” by Ann Lamott to my students to help them lower the stakes of each writing project.
• Finally, Dr. Rua Williams’ thread on an RA suddenly using LLMs helped crystallize some of my thought about their editing power.