The importance of dance discussion

Here are some ideas and thoughts my group had:

1. What issues/questions does this essay bring up in light of the reading
1. What are the students' goals?
2. Can you make error correcting more engaging and not so dull?
1. How well does error correcting work?
3. How can you improve help students become interested in the editing finding process?
4. How and which errors are going to be marked?

2. What options does a teacher have for responding to the essay and working on grammar
1. Focus on the errors that impede the overall meaning of the text
1. Frequent and distracting errors
2. Start a collaborative assignment where students have to share and discuss information
3. Proofreading training
4. Indirect feedback
1. Highlight or just circle errors and allow students to figure out the error on their own (the check mark in the margins)
5. Direct feedback
1. Locate and label error with appropriate symbols
2. Fix the error (most direct method)
6. Positive reinforcement
7. Average out the grades for potential rewrites so it forces students to carefully proofread and edit
8. The teacher could assign separate grades for grammar and content. Grammar and content could be weighted evenly or separately (grammar 40% content 60%)

3. What I suggest:
1. Work with the student's proofreading techniques
2. Help the student work on sentence level corrections (local errors).
3. Give global feedback regarding grammar
1. Many of this student's mistakes are repetitive. I think the student would benefit from a grammar lesson on past tense, plural vs. singular, and subject verb agreement.
2. I would recommend that the student try some exercises to practice such material and then return to the essay and attempt to self-correct.
4. If I were tutoring this particular student, I would want to know the essay's primary focus. It seems like the student wants to talk about two different topics
1. The part about the health benefits of dance is informative but I found it a bit distracting; the main focus of the essay seems to be centered around its cultural significance.