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Responding to student writing in an effective and timely manner is important to student success. And we want students to succeed, to be good writers. However, students don't often expect to receive detailed and intricate feedback on their work; they expect to see the dreaded "red pen" marks. They assume that we don't really read their writing, that we give each page a cursory glance, and that we are only looking for spelling and grammatical errors. This implies-and the students believe-that "writing" is only "writing correctly." But writing is much more than that, and as professionals we understand this. We know that revision has a key role in the process of writing, but good revision requires good feedback.

Had an issue with this, mostly because of the way the article ended, with the euphemism "unwilling to engage in the writing process." Dr Free-Ride (blogger) responded to this in a way I would suspect most faculty would. http://scientopia.org/blogs/ethicsandscience/2010/08/02/college-kids-and-their-plagiarism-or-college-professors-and-their-quaint-insistence-on-proper-citation-of-sources/

EtherPad is the only web-based word processor that allows people to work together in really real-time.