[MUSIC PLAYING]

NANCY SOMMERS: If I give you comments, I want you to see these comments as a sign of respect.

If I didn't respect your draft, then your draft wouldn't be worthy of comments, but because the draft is so good, and because there are so many ideas, ideas that are undeveloped, but ideas, these are idea's worthy of comment.

NATHAN YOUNIE: Getting a paper back from a teacher when got a bunch of red marks on it, that's never a fun thing. But definitely, we're here to learn, that's obviously why we're in school, trying to get a job for later. And they're doing it for a reason, we need to work on it.

So you can take it to heart. They're just trying to get the point across for us. And usually, we have a time to make it up too. If you get a bunch of marks on it, you can redo it. You're definitely going to learn from it. The idea is not to ding you on the grade, it's just, again, we're trying to learn here. And That's the bottom line.

MELISSA WILHELM: I usually try to look at them, read them, because, in our program, we do a lot of writing. So if you don't take in their criticisms, you won't learn, and therefore, you cant' improve.

ALEX RANKIN: They pretty much just say how it is. Like if there's a good part of the paragraph, or if there's a good part of the essay, they'll write next to it, hey, good job on your thesis. Or if my thesis isn't so good, they'll say work on your thesis next time. Try and make it flow.

NANCY SOMMERS: As a teacher, I want you, as a student, to engage with me. I don't want you to go home and be angry with me or say my teacher doesn't like me or she doesn't get me or she doesn't understand me, because maybe I didn't and maybe I'm wrong. But I want you to engage with me, and that's what my comments are about.