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In reply to the discussion: This lady is an English teacher who's been roasting incels by correcting their grammar... [View all]Don't take it so seriously. We English teachers love to sit around the teacher's lounge, critiquing the correction skills of these apps. We know more than they do and we could sit there for hours if our schedules would let us, tearing their corrections to pieces.
Microsoft especially: they've gotten better at their corrections and coaching in recent years, though. Back in the day, I used to tell my students to pay no attention to them. Now, however, they are at least worth a glance.
I like this woman's approach. She is ever so friendly as she points out what he needs to do. I wish I was that nice. I never achieved that level of cordiality, but I noticed a few of my colleagues could. This is important. After all, your goal is to make the student a better writer and if they walk away from you feeling miffed or with hurt feelings, it doesn't help.
At one time we were told not use a red pen in correcting student papers. It was because the department head thought it depressed the students to see all that "red stuff."
A recollection: Around the end of the first term, near the Christmas holiday, I had a student ask me in class what I meant by the big letters I had written across something he wrote. He asked if it was a Christmas greeting saying "Ho, ho, ho." I said no, my "n" looks like an "h". He then deduced: "So you're telling me 'No, no, no," not "Ho, ho, ho."
That is my favorite English teacher Christmas story.