The English Teacher's Red Pen Response:

What a great article. I think every English teacher should read this. Bleeding all over every students paper doesn't help the student's and doesn't do the teachers any favors either (except maybe make them despair over how poorly they're teaching). I, like every other English student, have heard from their teachers as some point over the years, "you get five mistakes and after that your grade goes down X amount of points per mistake", or something along those lines. This places an unnecessary amount of pressure on the writers and to an extent on the teacher as well since it is they who have to spend the next month laboring tediously over each sentence looking for any and all errors. It also doesn't help if every error on a students paper is pointed out because the student is overloaded with corrections and becomes frustrated with not writing well enough. I also as a student can remember being told that having good ideas is great but that no one would take my writing seriously if I didn't use proper spelling and grammar all while I thought if my ideas were good enough and the paper was readable shouldn't that count for more then a C. Turns out the answer really is yes. And while that doesn't raise my GPA now it certainly is nice to know and will be helpful for when I start grading.
Thats not to say that correcting grammar and spelling has no place. But, it should be done in manageable pieces. Maybe work on comma usage one week, then paragraph structure the next week, and so on. Also the teacher needs to recognize things students do right in their papers at least just as much as they're criticized. Giving students bite size grammar will help them remain confident and will help them work on their grammar.
I also really liked the tone/style of the author in this chapter. The author gave many examples to explain and support their position and the ideas were very clear and straight forward.