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[quote=Anonymous]I am a teacher (used to teach high school and now teach at a university) and I think you are conflating two separate issues.  One is turning in papers electronically and one is not getting feedback on written work.  We have students turn in papers electronically as one of the ways that we are trying to combat cheating.  Programs like "Turn It In" allow teachers to run papers through a filter that electronically checks for plagiarism against other published and internet sources.  This is invaluable to teachers in the age of internet research because it can be difficult to catch this kind of plagiarism in student papers.  The fact that the student is not getting written feedback is a separate issue and is not dependent on the student submitting a paper copy or an electronic copy of the paper.  I am required to give written feedback (and I believe it is one of the most important parts of my job) on all written work.  Like the previous teacher mentioned, it is actually easier to give substantial written feedback on electronically submitted papers using the "track changes" feature in Word than it is to write in the margins with a red pen like we used to do.

I would talk to the teacher about the feedback issue.  One caveat is that I often give extensive written feedback on early drafts of papers and then only give a grade on the final draft.  I want to focus my written feedback on the versions that students are actually going to read carefully and consider as part of a revision. Long comments on a final draft that is not going to be revised are not as useful as extensive commenting on work still to be improved.  Ask if this is what is going on if you are only seeing the final graded draft of your student's work. [/quote]

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