Hear from Public Relations Prof. Sadie Wilks
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So I offer feedback to my students in multiple ways. When I assign a writing exercise and I explained to the students what it is, I have them draft it, and then they peer edited together, and then they submit the revised copy to me. Once that process happens, I come back to class, after having graded the assignments, I review probably you know the top 10 common errors that I saw in this particular assignment, right. So I address it as a group. You know, collectively, these were the top 10 things. I don't call up an individual person about hey you did this wrong, but I share with people in the class right, these are the collective 10 things that you should be noting for this assignment. If you did them if you address them or if you didn't address them or you didn't hit in accurately then here's what i'm telling you where most people fell short. And also, where most people got it right. I usually try to do a pretty wide explanation of how I felt the assignment went. The second thing I do is I give them feedback on their individual work right, so I have them turn in an assignment, whether it's you know digitally or in print, I give them written feedback or type feedback that explained this exactly where they went wrong or how they can improve. Because I generally have just as many comments on my A papers, as I do my C and D papers, because I want to not only tell them what they didn't do right, but also what they could do better. So sometimes it's and you know, an A paper, but maybe there's a different perspective or some other content that could really enhance what they were doing. So I do that individual and then I offer the students, an opportunity to meet with me in person. So some of our bigger assignments, like our digital portfolio assignment, it's you know kind of a combination of a few different assignments is you know kind of using that scaffolding method. And so what I do is offer them an opportunity to meet with me individually to go over that. So a few of the things i'm trying to do more, that I do on a pretty regular basis to maintain that workflow is number one I dedicate a certain amount of time every week to grading those assignments, so that I, and I know that i'm going to find extensive feedback on each one of those papers. For my students, so I also set blocks of time up during my week to do that, like I said i've also use software called Turn It In. which allows me to give the students, you know feedback and grammar punctuation spelling and there's an automatic process for that it automatically looks for that it also looks for any plagiarized items. So that kind of helps me move forward a lot quicker than if i'm just looking at myself. And I also provide you know typed written feedback into that Turn It In software comment box. I use the little auto functions which are great, but I also type in my own comments to give them, you know more detail feedback, so I use some technology to make this a little bit more efficient and effective. Like that also make sure I give myself enough time to do it, so that I'm not rushed. And I tried to make sure that I give assignment back within two weeks. So, for them to get the most out of my feedback on their assignments, I have to make sure that i'm giving those back to them in a timely manner so that we're not kind of stuck in that circle of them making the same errors for three or four weeks, where they actually get feedback from me. So those are some of the ways I help make that communication process and that feedback process a little more efficient and effective for me and the students. One new thing I'm looking forward to trying in Fall 2021 is a new software it's specifically a peer editing facilitation software. So I'm a heavy user of peer editing in my classes. And this, the critic software is something that I'm looking forward to try and because it allows the students to respond to each other's comments and criticisms and feedback. And so there's a really, a very nice process. It's new, i'm not sure how it's going to work because I think it'll take a little bit of getting used to for both me and the students, but in the demonstrations and for what I want to accomplish with peer editing, because I feel like it's such a big part of what we do in communication on our communication teams, we never submit, something that was only approved in reviewed by one person,that this peer editing process is so vital to what we do that i'm want to try this new software, to see if I can further get the students to participate and offer solid communication and feedback with their peers in class.