Students ought to be challenged when receiving feedback on papers. Instead of correcting the commas on the student’s paper, the tutor or teacher can suggest that a sentence needs a comma and challenge the student to figure out where the comma goes. In a course, having students submit their papers electronically will save time because the teacher can use the Review tab on Word 2010 to highlight and insert comments. Typical comments can be written in advance and simply copied and pasted into the comment text bubble. Below is a list of comments that often come up as I tutor. These can be used by tutors and teachers when reviewing papers:
- This is a fragment. Does it belong to the sentence before or after it?
- This is a fragment. What word(s) can you add or change to make it a complete sentence?
- There are two fragments in this paragraph. Read the paragraph backwards one sentence at a time to find them. How can you fix them?
- This sentence is a run-on. How can you fix it?
- There are two run-on sentences in this paragraph. Can you find them and fix them?
- You have a series of three in this sentence. Where should you put commas?
- You start this sentence with a subordinate clause or long phrase. Find the end of it and add a comma.
- When you divide two sentences with a fancy adverbial conjunction like the word however, you need to give it a semicolon and a comma. Where should these go?
- This paragraph is longer than 12 sentences. Where would be a good place to split it?
- How can you rewrite this topic sentence to better preview what you talk about in this paragraph?
- How can you rewrite the thesis sentence to better preview what your body paragraphs talk about?
- Your ideas in the paragraph(s) are scattered. Which ideas belong together? Color-code them so you can easily see which go where, and then reorganize your paragraph(s).
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