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Written by Richard Straub, "Responding- Really Responding- to Other Students' Writing" isn't about simply making comments on a paper you are responding to like in a peer edit, but rather giving meaningful feed back, to help the writer look back on their work and make it even better than it was before. He gives us a hypothetical situation where we are given two choices for feed back: either complete the assignment and stop at that, without giving a second thought after giving them your comments, or put effort and time into it and more than just satisfy whom ever it concerns - which is ironic since we are giving our feedback and comments on a paper that teaches you how to give meaningful feed back.
As a specialist on reading, evalutaing, and responding to student writing, Straub gives us some ideas to help better our feedback such as thinking about "How should you look at yourself as a responder?", " What are your goals?", and " How do you get started?". These questions serve as the blueprint/guidelines towards giving better feedback towards material we read. He even addresses how we should sound when we give them the feedback and how much, and where to put it. By reading Straub's article, you get a feeling that by reading his advice and tips, you can become a better write youself, even when you aren't in need of any input from anyone. Personally I feel that his tips were useful, such as focusing on what to address like its shape or flow, how to sound (not like teacher), and how my tone of the feed back should be (whether it should be praiseful or criticizing)