I recently discovered a useful, free tool for giving students feedback on drafts of their papers: Kaizena.com. Kaizena lets you highlight text in a student’s paper and then add text and/or audio comments. I like being able to use my computer’s microphone to record comments because I tend to explain the issue more clearly and less cryptically when speaking than when typing a comment. And my students this morning reported really appreciating getting oral feedback with Kaizena. Kaizena also lets you attach online resources to specific locations in a student’s paper. When you add a new resource to a student’s paper, it is added to your list of possible resources making it faster and easier to provide that same resource for another student. Here are a few of the resources I have in my Kaizena account:
| Citing websites without an author or date in APA style | http://apastyle.org/learn/faqs/cite-website-material.aspx |
| Using secondary citations in APA style | http://apastyle.org/learn/faqs/cite-another-source.aspx |
| In-text citations in APA style | http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/01/writing-in-text-citations-in-apa-style.html? |
| Paragraph organization | simpson.edu/internal/student-life/clubs-and-organizations/how-register-your-club-or-organization/organizational |
| Using pronouns clearly | https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/595/01/ |