I keep reading about the color marking strategy of revision. I have never actually done this before. Although Gilmore explains the ways in which students can go about highlighting their essays, my question remains unanswered: What do the students do after they are done color marking their paper?
Are the students supposed to be looking for patterns? For example, should students count the number of yellow verbs they have in their essay? If the students are highlighting "good writing" in one color, and "bad writing" in another color, then do they just go back and revise the "bad writing." I would like to know more about the process of color marking. Besides decorating an essay, what is it?
Again, I like peer editing for the most part. I still think that the stronger writers are at a disadvantage in the benefits of peer editing, but it is helpful to teach students several techniques and then let them practice on each other's and their own papers.
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Ah! I wish you would have brought this up in class. You raise an excellent point about the purpose of color in revision. What exactly do you do with it? It's not a technique I've ever employed, so I honestly do not know.
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