Students' Reactions to Teacher Comments: An Exploratory Study.

Current scholarship indicates that most writing students read and make use of teachers' written comments on their drafts and find some types of comments more helpful than others. But the research is unclear about which comments students find most useful and why. This article presents the results of a survey of 142 firstyear college writing students' perceptions about teacher comments on a writing sample. A 40-item questionnaire was used to...