Jesus CHRIST

[jeriendhal]

I cannot believe that any teacher would be so hypersensitive to their students feelings to actually do this: http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2004/08/23/harshness_of_red_marks_has_students_seeing_purple/


Hello? The red ink is there to tell you that you screwed up, and try to correct your errors next time.

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[edg.livejournal.com]

Word. If you don't want red ink on your paper, get the answers right the first time. If that means studying instead of playing Super Hyper Fighting Street Fighter II Alpha Limited Edition, then turn off the damn game.

[kitsunebeast.livejournal.com]

Found you on my friendsfriends page and had to chime in -- hope you don't mind.

My mother is a University Professor who stopped using red ink at her students request. I believe she also uses blue or purple. This does not mean she doesn't grade harshly -- students get negative grades on papers if they have enough errors (it's a Journalism school, and it's minues 10 points per error, including style and spelling errors). She does also let students correct the mistakes and turn papers back in for partial credit, but on some of the papers it would look like they had been bled on profusely if she continued to use red ink (and it's kinda hard to read).

Just another angle on it. :)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

That sounds a bit more reasonable, though I'm sure if purple would be better in that case. Wouldn't it blend in with the black ink and actaully make the corrected paper more difficult to read?

[kitsunebeast.livejournal.com]

It's a pretty bright purple, but still much more readable than red.

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

I decided long ago that my personal habit would be red marks for errors, but comments in purple or blue pen, even if they were comments on errors. That way, you get red, but you don't get smothered in it, and it's possible to tell "you messed up Right Here" apart from "you mucked up and I want to show you how", which I always hated having a hard time figuring out as a student. Had some profs who wrote even not-graded-down comments in red, and that drove me up the walls. But I certainly thing red pen needs more use overall, not less.

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

Oh, and a green pen for "dude, that was cool!" marks.

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

I would make a division: Purple or whatever in primary and middle schools, red above. However, the idea of distinguishing between mark-down comments and others is also really good. I've heard of not using red as policy in the history department here, but honored only in the breach so far. My first Lit paper came back absolutely bloody, as it should have.

[cleverthylacine]

Past a certain point red is hard to read. If I'm being criticised legitimately I want to be able to read what the critic is saying; constructive criticism does me no good if I can't read it clearly.

[tephra]

Well at least I should be able to satisfy my taste for purple ink now. When I'm in the region of a Staples anyway.

[ Still haven't figured out why I'm on your friends list, I'm flattered and puzzled. :) ]

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Just liked your style while I was browsing some of my friends friendslists. :)