Thursday, July 31, 2008

Writing Conference Method

To class,
Writing conference
I do agreed with Carnicelli who wrote about the writing conference method because it is a kind of teaching to help students improve their wrting skill.
From my understanding, the writer tells us to to know the importance of the conference method which has been accepted in many universities in recent years. He tells us that the conference method must only be organised by the two parties. They are a teacher and a student, not all students in the class. The advantage is that the teacher and the student can hold the conference no matter where they are and no matter how much they wanted. With this teaching style, the student can get individually direct response from the teacher after reading his/her first draft, on the other hand, he/she can question the teacher back right away.
In the old days writing course teachers always sent their feedback about students' writing works through statements and written comments, sometimes the way discouraged the students from approaching to get the right comments from their teachers and many of them dared not do so because they were afraid that they would be reprimanded.
I also agreed with the writer, saying that normally the writing process has three steps. They are prewriting, writing, and rewriting., Most teachers in the past were not aware of this process. They just gave the topic and ordered their students to write a first draft immediately. After the students finished the works, they graded the works immediately while the students would not have the opportunity to know their writing mistakes and problems. By the way, the conference method being popular today is used as a way-out to solve the problem because the teachers give the opportunity for their students to write multiple drafts after receiveing feedback until the students will be happy about their corrections, and the evaluation will be made at the end of the course.
Like Acharn Karnchanok, she is doing the same thing as Carnicelli wrote in his chapter. She instructed us to write mulitiple drafts of writing in order that she will see the writing development of everyone. Well done my dear teacher.
Anucha

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