Why Button Pairs
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You will notice that a number of buttons appear to come in pairs, like so:

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Clicking the first button of this pair will insert a comment as shown below.

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It might be tempting to browbeat the student into submission by continuing to hammer on the first button for every pronoun agreement error in the paper, overloading it with the same robotic comment.  On nicer days, however, when the sun is shining, and the administration is leaving you alone and not ignoring you either, you will probably feel better just delicately indicating subsequent instances of the same error with an abbreviated form of the comment above by clicking Pronounce Agreement 2 (subsequent) button.  How it looks to the students appears below:

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To make sure that students know what all the subsequent, abbreviated comments mean, these shorter insertions are hyperlinked back to the initial instance of the error.  If students are in doubt, therefore, about a subsequent comment, they can simply click it (actually, it's usually a control-click) and the cursor will move back to the first instance of the error where they may re-read the detailed explanation.