Why Grading Student Writing Takes So Much Time (For Me Anyway)

By John Warner. This past weekend, I graded a round of essays in my first-year writing course. 
With three sections of 20 students each, this means 60 essays, though attrition has already hit, leaving me with only 58 to work through. 
The two most cognitively taxing things I do in my life are try to write novels and to grade student writing when the purpose of that grading is to help students become better at writing. Read more...