Learning to Give Helpful Feedback Comments

Why Learn the Describe Evaluate Suggest Heuristic

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1. Learning to Give Feedback Comments
2. Comments are a Genre Pattern Reviewers Writers Describe Slows down reading process and can help with critical reading Lets writers feel heard when reviewers build ethos by showing that they get the writer's goals Evaluate Encourages application of specific criteria Helps writers gauge their progress toward meeting criteria, even if they disagree with reviewers’ assessment or if reviewers disagree Suggest Develops range of flexible solutions to rhetorical problems Gives writers a concrete next step to answer a question, consider a change, or engage in a different process
3. Comments are arguments Pattern Praise Critique Describe A specific passage or a rhetorical strategy A specific passage, a rhetorical strategy or a missing element or goal Evaluate On criteria X, the draft succeeds because On criteria X, the draft fails because Suggest Extend it to another area of the draft Question, Rhetorical Strategy, Writing Process Step, or Correction
4. How to Rate for Helpfulness in Eli 1. Does this comment describe the draft? Does it help the writer understand the draft any better? 2. Does this comment evaluate the draft? Does it help the writer measure progress toward the assignment goals? 3. Does this comment suggest a revision? Does it offer any specific advice for improvement? 4. Does this comment show respect for the draft and the writer? 5. Does it do any of these to an extraordinary extent?