Blog #10

Question:

• how do comments asking question prompt the writer to develop and further ideas? (implied questions and open-ended questions)
• ALSO- does a complex subject call for complex questions/comments?

Codes:
#1

• Use of hedges: lexical hedges (maybe, please, might), syntactic (can you add an example here?), positive softeners (you've raised a good question but..)
• 0- generic comments
• 1- specific comments
• helpful questions/raise ideas

#2

• Includes Syntactic hedges: " I recommend bringing.."
• Positive Softner: "You've done a lot"
• Generic Comments- 0
• *The comments on this paper were very text specific*

#3
·         #1. Ask for information/ question.
·         #2. Make a request/question.
·         #3.Make a request/ statement .
·         #7. Make a positive comment, statement, or exclamation.


#4
·         #3. Make a request/ statement.
·         #6. Give information/ statement.
·         #4. Make a request imperative.


 #5

• 3- make request
• 5-give info
• 8- make grammar change

• 0-generic comments

• revisions:
• 1 effect negative
• 3 effect mixed

#6

• 4- make a request
• 7- positive comment
• 8- grammar mechanics

• no hedges
• 0 –generic comments
• specific comments

Comments:
#1

• he gives both specific and general comments
• *depending on what the subject/topic is, it will reflect in the comments (complex argument = more complex questions)
• gives positive feedback 
• gives enough detail to help but not too much to discourage or change
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    #2

• "You've definitely done a lot of research here!" ( Positive Comment)
• "This draft is overloaded with information" ( Statement)
• " I do feel, though, the amount makes it hard to tell what's important, particularly those ideas that challenge students' existing construct about plagiarism" ( Statement)
• " I recommend bringing out the unexpected stuff" ( Makes a request)
• "Give one or two of the latter, in enough specificity for reads to get the point" ( Request/imperative)
• "My margin notes point ou
• t some places you can make these kind of changes" ( Information/ statement)

#3

•        “You’re doing a nice job complicating the issue of plagiarism.  The idea aspect of it gets left out from many discussions” (Positive Comment)

• “This paragraph covers a lot of information, and it might be hard for readers to process.  I’d consider breaking it into smaller units” (Making a request)

• “I’m not sure I see how these sentences fit into this part of the project.  Maybe they would work better earlier?” (Making a request/question)

• “This is a really detailed list, and I can see it scaring students.  Can you think of ways to combine ideas, making the reasons seem less oppressive?” (Ask for information/ questions)

#4

• “Write a stronger introduction/ conclusion” (general comment)
• “Check the focus / organization of your discussions. Do you cover all related ideas in the same section? Is this the best order?” (make a request/ statement)

#5

• The lack of question comments may effect revision but contradicts our theory

      #6

• The lack of question comments may effect revision but contradicts our theory

Analysis:

• Overall, we thought that asking questions as comments was an effective way to develop more ideas.

• These are comments are the type that we would like to see on our own research papers, they are positive, yet give text-specific comments which help the writer in improving and adding to their paper. Without these types of comments/feedback the student will not know if they are heading in the right direction, this going along with our research question. As students' we look forward to these comments and when we do not receive any it may discourage us to try and improve our research papers.
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Remaining Limitations:

• Lack of question comments lead to a revised paper that didn't give us the information we needed.