Student Writing Check in Detail

Writing Check is a rich area for feedback and promoting student self-help.

Writing Check – All feedback is personalised on every writing check

Recap of Options

1. REMEMBER you turned on all of the Options and Contexts in Activity setup.

2. REMEMBER that you gave students access to all of these options on the left, not us. We do default to all unless we are told otherwise. OVERALL and PARAGRAPH feedback are always shown.

3. Revisions are available to everyone (more on this later).

4. Read Text is used frequently!

5. Report is excellent for students as well.

The Detailed Elements of Feedback – you will love them all!

Element	Description
Overall	Across 4 common metrics for writing, Scribo builds personalised high-level comments. The levels are Task Completion, Language Conventions, Word Choice and Writing Suggestions. Note that feedback can be translated into a student's preferred language. This translates all feedback that follows.
Paragraph	Feedback is tailored about the paragraph. This feedback includes a mixture of other elements that are listed below. You can follow the links. Feedback is colour-coded. RED is serious, ORANGE is an easier fix and a waste of marks if you don't fix it and GREEN is good work. All feedback is personalised.
Su (Summary)	Ever wanted to see the main points made through all of the ... other words? Scribo AI summarises the main points made and tracks where they are in the text. It is interesting how out of place some points are! Usually we cap it at 6 identified points. This is a great feature for humanities teachers!
GS (Grammar and Spelling)	We put a lot of effort into this element. Apart from Grammar and Spelling, there is now a Clarity section that looks at where words can be reworded or dropped to make the text more clear. Suggestions are offered. There is no auto-correct feature as we want students to think about and read the advice before they fix errors.
Pv (Passive Voice)	Although Passive Voice sometimes has its place, Active Voice is a better habit, but needs a different way of approaching the sentence. Too much PV makes writing hard to read.
Co (Cohesives)	We do a really good job of finding simple and advanced cohesives. Have a look at the Cohesives Explorer and see if you can find something other than 'and'. Scribo does not like you using more than 2 'and' words in a sentence.
Vo (Vocabulary)	Scribo isolates and finds Common, Advanced, Intermediate and Academic words. Repeated words are also shown. To get a higher score, you need to increase the use of more advanced language (though this is possibly not the case for younger writers).
Se (Sentences)	Scribo looks for all types of sentences, with a focus on finding fragmented ones. The more variety of sentences, the better the text is to read.
Re (Readability)	How did a student go from a Readability score of 60 to 22? Maybe cut and paste? Readability swings show where writing is not 'their own'. A score of 0 is a life insurance policy and 100 is like reading Dr Seuss. It's a scale that seems back to front – writing in the green zones is a good target.
St (Styles)	When the Activity is created, genres and Styles can be selected. If Compare and Contrast is required, for example, Scribo will find where the writing implements a compare and contrast language. A good essay will have balance and variety.
Ke (Keywords)	Which Keywords were used and which ones were missed? Scribo tries to help you find synonyms and alternatives for each Keyword.