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'ON ‘OD 'TOA  \nILLINOIS ENGLISH BULLETIN  \nOfficial Publication of the Illinois Association of Teachers of English  \nMarch,1953  \nUrbana,Hlinois  \nVol.40,No.6  \nPublished every month except June,July,August,and September.Subseription price,  \n$2.00 per year;single copies,25 cents.Entered as second-class matter October 29,1941,  \nat the post office at Urbana,lllinois,under the Act of March 3,1879.Communications  \nmay be addressed to H.W.Wilson,109 English Building,Urbana,Illinois.  \nEvaluating Ninth-Grade Themes  \n# Sponsorship and Participants\n\nThe officers of the Illinois Association of Tcachers of Englishat their meeting in March,1952,approved a study of currentstandards in evaluating compositions written by students in theninth and twelfth grades.Later,Professor Gordon N.Ray,Headof the Department of English of the University of Illinois,agreedthat the Department would serve as co-sponsor of the study.High school and college teachers from all sections of Illinoiseagerly agreed to share in the work.  \nThe committee guiding the study has consisted of Miss BettyWoller,Champaign High School,who is familiar with bothninth-and twelfth-grade classes;Professor Charles W.Roberts,Director of Freshman Rhetoric at the University of Illinois,whoformerly taught in high school;and,as chairman,Professor J.N.Hook,editor of the Bulletin,who also has had high school ex-perience.  \nNinth-grade teachers who made the evaluations and preparedthe comments printed in this issue are:  \nMargaret Adams,SycamoreJoan Brosman,LawrencevilleMary Bynum,Olney  \nFlorence A.Cook,ShabbonaOlive G.Dean,BloomingtonMaude E.Dorsett,ParisAlice Grant,West FrankfortRuth E.Gustafson,VirginiaMary T.Holty,AuroraAdelina Jenkins,DecaturPaul W.Jones,EvanstonMother Mary Ellen,DecaturGertrude Pfeil,Ottawa  \nFern Ranson,LewistownLauretta J.Robinson,MacombBetty Rupp,Elgin  \nLucille M.Tkach,StreatorLaura Irene Utt,GillespieJanet Wilson,Marion  \nA related study,devoted to twelfth-grade themes evaluated byother teachers,appears in the April,1953,Bulletin.  \n# Purpose of the Study\n\nOne of the responsibilities of a teacher of English is to evalu-ate compositions-to weigh and find what is wanting,to attach asymbol that tells the student that his work is good or poor,towrite a comment that will help the student to improve his futurewriting in some way.If students are to become better writers,they must write,and what they write must be judged by a sym-pathetic and competent critic who knows what good writing isand who knows what students'capabilities are.  \nHere is a teacher.Here is a theme,one of many in the stack.On the paper are scratchings of black or blue,a few smudges,an erasure,a word crossed out;on this paper is the evidence ofa groping attempt to convey a group of related facts,an idea oran opinion,a picture,an emotion,or a story from one mind to an-ther.What the teacher does to that groping attempt will help todetermine how successful the student will be in future communi-cation.  \nMarking the paper is not easy.The misspellings,the faultypunctuation and capitalization,and the gross errors in sentencestructure or usage are not difficult to spot;indeed,they may beso conspicuous that the teacher becomes engrossed in markingthem and overlooks other significant matters.And on the nexttheme,which is free of mechanical errors,the teacher,out ofsheer relief,may happily write an A and a Good even though thecontent and organization are poor.  \nWhat are the principles that an able teacher applies in evalu-ating a composition?Relatively what weight does the teachergive to content,straight thinking,organization,sentence struc-ture,grammatical usage,diction,and mechanical matters such aspunctuation,capitalization,and spelling?Must the A paper bestrong in all these respects,or may it be weak in some and ex-ceptionally strong in others?Is the E paper faulty in almosteverything,or is it very poor 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