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Tips of Essay/Paragraph Correction As an English tutor, correcting students’ essays and paragraphs is a major and important skill. There are several rules we must pay attention to while proofreading the essays. 1. The tutor should encourage the student to write essays in blue or black ink instead of pencils. This way, you can more easily find the errors in the essays. It is also better for you to correct essays in red ink. To show your profession, you should never use pencils to correct them. 2. While correcting the essays, you should keep the mistakes. Please cross them out rather than erasing them. They are very helpful for the student because only then can he/she compare the corrected essay with the original one. 3. If a student makes serious and apparent mistakes in an essay, you may underline them and have him/her correct them on his/her own. For example, “SP” means spelling mistakes, “T” means tense errors. Afterwards, you should check how the student did with the correction. 4. While correcting the essays, please make note of the mistakes of grammar and word usage as well as correct the structure and content of the essay. Some structural mistakes are: the content is unrelated to the topic; there are no thesis statement, or general sentence in the essays; there are no topic sentence in the body; the content of the body paragraph is not focused on the topic sentence, etc. If you find poor structure or content, you should ask the student to correct or re-write them. If necessary, you should write a sample to show your student. Also the tutor can show students the model essay after correcting students’ essay, compare the model essay with students’essay. 5. Sometimes there are awkward or “Chinese-translated” sentences in the essay, you should change all or part of them in order to guide the students to write better. For example, A. Original sentence We can find much examples about humors coming from successful men. B. General correction We can find many examples about humor coming from successful men. C. Qualified correction We can find many examples of successful men who also have a good sense of humor. 6. While correcting the essays, sometimes you may show two or more solutions instead of one. That would guide the students to learn more writing skills. 7. You should correct the essays very carefully. Try not to miss any mistakes. If the students find obvious mistakes uncorrected, they would lose marks.

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