Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "When Responding to Student Writing, More is Better," by Muriel Harris. It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Keywords: evaluation, feedback, grading, response, writing center

Muriel Harris, professor emerita of English at Purdue University, initiated and directed the Purdue Writing Lab where she learned a great deal from students she met in hundreds of tutorials, including which strategies for grammatical rules might work and which needed to be tossed out. Working with graduate student tutors, she initiated a website with instructional handouts on writing, the Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab). Most of her professional writing has focused on writing centers and individualized instruction in writing. She authored Teaching One-to-One: The Writing Conference, co-authored two textbooks on writing, and is Editor-in-Chief of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship. However, she and her husband consider their finest accomplishment in life to be their children and grandchildren. (2020 bio)

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