Sometime in late September, nearly every instructor meets the same moment. A submission arrives that is fluent, organized, grammatically clean—and strangely weightless. The question that rises first is the obvious one: did the student write this? It is also, I want to suggest, the wrong first question. After more than forty years of teaching college writing, nineteen of them entirely […] The post Four Questions to Ask Before You Grade This Fall appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning .