Data+Collection

8.06.2010

S1: MS Word (Kuvshinova O.) S2: Wiki (Oreshnikova Yu.) S3: blog (Venchikova A.)

Have quite a problem deciding how to combine the comments made by S2 and S3 on S1 essay drafts. They are made in MS Word and because S2 made in-text comments the line numbering I had to introduce for reference considerations do not match the original line numbering I used wen working with the comments made by S3. Originally, I thought the use of colour is quite helpful for commenting because for draft 1 S2 used 2 colours and put her comments in brackets, with her comment in green and her variant in red and quotation marks. To comment on the second draft she used 3 colours and also started adding extensive comments using a dictionary and a reference grammar book (which one?). By the time I was half through it, I felt I had enough because there was too much information to process. I wonder where it could be better to place them.

What about instructing students about the length of the commentary?

Now have to decide how to deal with different line numberiing in essay draft 1 made by S2 and S3. S3 only made one set of comments (!).

And another question. When S3 made her comments in a separate file with her comments structured to match the paragraphs of S1 essay draft I thought it was easy to use them and had no problem matching the comments with the lines of the essay draft. However, having to compare them with those made by S2, I now am in doubt about whether they are indeed laidout better this way. But maybe this is just because I have to compare them, with the students having no poblem following them because they have just one set. What if they receive comments from several peers?