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Shouldn't STUDENTS - rather than teachers - be the ones responsible for analyzing their own essays? After all, part of what we expect students to do is to analyze works; thus, they should have to analyze their own writing. As an English teacher, I require my students to prove to me that they can analyze their work through a rubric system designed to hold them accountable. I require them to p