Tutorial~

Read the essay distributed.  Decide what to do with the errors. Are you going to use written comments, talk to the writer or use checklist? Will you encourage peer edit before the next submission? What is you follow-up activity to deal with the most common error found in your essay?

I will use written comments. The reason I chose written comments to deal with the errors in my students' essays is this will not spend too much time for explaining the errors one by one to my students.and will not affect our teaching syllabus pace.  I personally think that using checklist doesn't help a lot on students for dealing with their errors. They might realize their mistakes or errors in their essays but they will still remain making the same mistakes as they don't know what is the correction for their errors. Talk to student will be time consuming. It might affect teaching and learning sessions and not all of them can be guaranteed have been learnt something from those two periods.

I will encourage peer edit before the text submission. This is because when you know that your peers are going to be reading your draft, you are often more likely to think ahead about how you can interest your audience and how you can explain your ideas clearly. After some initial inevitable self-consciousness, writing groups can really come together, look forward to reading and responding to each others' work, and take pride in the accomplishments of others. Peer editing can be a confidence builder to those writers who are insecure about their own writing. You are likely to find that others' first drafts aren't so great either, and you'll find out how much you can actually help other writers with your own responses. The students can exchange their drafts among themselves and edit or even give comments on their peers' piece of work.

My follow-up activity to deal with the most common error found in students' essays is I will prepare an essay with the errors which are common among my students. The essays will be distributed to them. Then, the discussions about dealing with and correction for the errors will be held with them. The students will realize the errors which have been pointed in the essay given is same as theirs so they will not make the same mistakes again.