The marking desk
Mark my writing
Paste a paragraph or a full answer on the Heaney and Sheers comparison and the desk will annotate it the way a teacher would: short notes in the margin, a comment at the end, and a question to take back to the poems. It will not give you a mark, a grade or a level, ever. Those are your teacher’s to give, and comments are more use to you anyway.
How to use it well
Draft in your own words first. Send a paragraph, read the comments, then redraft in another colour before you show your teacher. The desk is a sparring partner, not a shortcut: it will not write the essay for you, and it will always push you from naming a device to showing its effect.
A note for teachers: this comment-only desk supports the school’s marking policy. It applies a prompt-level and server-side block on any mark, grade, level or score, so the teacher stays the sole source of level judgements. See the assessment page.