Beyond Margin Notes: Utilizing Technology to Improve Feedback to Student Writers

摘要

Good writing skills are perpetually listed as both a failing and a necessity among prospective employers. As a result, preparing students to be good writers has become an emphasis in many engineering and technology curriculums. Research on writing repeatedly emphasizes the importance of feedback in developing student writers. Instructors therefore, must not only require appropriate writing exercises, but provide the kind of meaningful and comprehensive feedback that will improve student writing.