The Schendel essay talks about why we focusing on sentence level errors in papers is actually not the best idea. She surveys a whole bunch of writing center tutors and asks them how much time is actually spent working on grammar and mechanics and the numbers were generally relatively high. She then asked how the tutors would go about teaching said mechanics and grammar.
The Bib article begins with a history of grammar tutoring, and then goes on to talk about the more modern ways. Like the Schendel essay, Bib also surveys different writing tutors to see what they focus on in their writing.
Peh's piece talks about proofreading during the pandemic. When everything moved online, and actual meetings were difficult, a lot of people with sentence level concerns simply asked for proofreading. Peh says that the the way to go about it is to go over the first few paragraphs of the paper, to help the writer learn how to recognize on their own.
I really appreciated the way Peh goes about fixing the sentence level errors, as it lines up with what I think is the most effective way to do it according to the Schendel essay.
Why do professors outside of English/liberal arts care so much about sentence level errors? it would make more sense for those ones to be more focused on the content.
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