Marking Errors: A Simple Strategy.

Timmons, Theresa Cullen

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ERIC Number: EJ346882

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1987

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Marking Errors: A Simple Strategy

Timmons, Theresa Cullen

Teaching English in the Two-Year College, v14 n1 p18-21 Feb 1987

Indicates that using highlighters to mark errors produced a 76% class improvement in removing comma errors and a 95.5% improvement in removing apostrophe errors. Outlines two teaching procedures, to be followed before introducing this tool to the class, that enable students to remove errors at this effective rate. (JD)

Descriptors: Editing, Instructional Materials, Punctuation, Revision (Written Composition), Teaching Methods, Writing Improvement, Writing Research

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Guides - Non-Classroom

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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