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Four Questions to Ask Before You Grade This Fall

A submission arrives that is fluent, organized, grammatically clean—and strangely weightless. The question that rises first is the obvious one: did the student write this?

Four Questions to Ask Before You Grade This Fall

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A submission arrives that is fluent, organized, grammatically clean—and strangely weightless.

The question that rises first is the obvious one: did the student write this?

After more than forty years of teaching college writing, nineteen of them entirely […]

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A submission arrives that is fluent, organized, grammatically clean—and strangely weightless. The question that rises first is the obvious one: did the student write this? After more than forty years of teaching college writing, nineteen of them entirely […]

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Sometime in late September, nearly every instructor meets the same moment. It is also, I want to suggest, the wrong first question.

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