"The teacher's proper role, [Joseph Moxley] explains, 'is not to tell the student explicitly what to do but rather to serve as a sounding board enabling the writer to see confusions in the text and encouraging the writer to explore alternatives that he or she may not have considered.'" (224)
Unlike the other article we read, "The Genre of the End Comment," which I found to disregard encouraging remarks made by teachers, stating they were part of a generic convention and not of sincere intentions. I find that this quote serves to better describe the teachers role in paper reading than the other article which I thought stated teachers were under educated on grading papers.
This is a very important quote in the reading. As a teacher or editor, it's not fair for us to "tell" the student what to do. We are all intelligent students and to tell someone how to do their work is arrogant. We should be a source to help them, but not to tell them how they should do their work.
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