Karen, an experienced American English teacher, accepted a teaching job at a teacher's college in China. She found her new environment and her new teaching assignment exciting. However, she felt frustrated after she taught her class how to edit essays. She found that the students were likely to write vague and not very helpful remarks on their classmates’papers. They would say nice things about the essays and correct small grammatical errors, but seemed unwilling to criticize them in a way that would help another student revise the essay. They usually accepted her criticism of their writing with good spirits and promises to improve.