This week I had my first experience correcting papers. The class assignment was to write a narrative, which is extremely broad. All of the students chose a topic of their choice but were given strict guidelines in their rubric about formatting, style, and description. For the most part the assignment was centered around using description in the story.
After correcting the class' narratives I found out that they did not do very well at the objective, actually the completely failed it. Although they failed that one aspect of the rubric their narratives were excellent stories. Trying to grade creative writing, because after all that is what the assignment was, is quite challenging. I absolutely enjoyed all of their narratives. I could tell that the students enjoyed the assignment but they neglected to look at their rubrics.
So what have I learned from this experience? Personally I will not assess an assignment that is creative in nature with strict guidelines about content but rather format and style. Something like a creative writing project is tough to grade because a writer puts out their own emotion into the writing. It is a tragedy to grade it, to write on it.
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