Page 1 - Pilatuña Michelle-Argumentative essay

UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA DE AMBATO

FACULTAD CIENCIAS HUMANAS Y DE LA EDUCACIÓN

WRITING II

Name: Michelle Pilatuña

Nowadays, for many people, especially students, having good writing skills could be
difficult. Moreover, teachers give feedback to students because they want to learners
improve their writing. Because of negative feedbacks, students usually do not follow
feedbacks. Sometimes, receiving feedback could overwhelming for students. In my
opinion, feedback on academic writing is very important in for a student success.

Most teachers tend to give too much feedback about students’ writing, and it could be
negative for students instead of being a benefit. Students can feel demotivated by the
comments that they receive. Thus, they just see the grades assigned by the teacher, and
students do not read all the feedback (Oxford, 2014). This is negative for students because
if they do not read comments, they won’t improve in their writing skills. The same
mistakes in their writing will continue appearing. It is very important that students can
analyze the feedback in their writing, in this way they can improve their academic writing.

There are many ways of giving feedback. The intention of constructive feedback is to
help students to improve grammar, punctuation, academic ways to write in their essays,
paragraphs, articles, etc. However, there is another way to give feedback, and I consider
it is better than the others. “Other forms of feedback they received included oral feedback
from friends and peers and from face-to-face meetings with university writing center
tutors” (Tuzi, 2004). Oral feedback is better for students because they can analyze all their
problems in their writing with their teachers. Students can ask question or clarify their
doubts, and in the same way teachers can help them to recognize their mistakes.

As a conclusion, most students do not realize the importance of feedback. The purpose
of receiving comments of their teacher is just to help them to write correctly. If teachers
continue seeing the same mistakes in their students’ writing, they can use other methods
to give feedback. Students have to read carefully the comments in their writing, in this
way they will be able to write better texts.

Pilatuña Michelle