The theory and practice of grading writing : problems and possibilities /

"Grading is one of the thorniest issues writing teachers must deal with, yet, surprisingly little has been written on this topic. As writing teachers move increasingly toward practices that focus on writing as a process, they face a growing need to reconsider their systems of grading to determi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Zak, Frances, 1939-, Weaver, Christopher C., 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Temas:
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching.
English language > Rhetoric > Ability testing.
Report writing > Study and teaching.
Grading and marking (Students)
Rapports > Rédaction > Étude et enseignement.
Classement et notation (Élèves et étudiants)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Origins and evolution of grading student writing: pedagogical imperatives and cultural anxieties / Richard Boyd
  • Direction in the grading of writing? What the literature on the grading of writing does and doesn't tell us / Bruce W. Speck and Tammy R. Jones
  • Do we do what we say? Contradictions in composition teaching and grading / Bruce Maylath
  • Construction, deconstruction, and (over)determination: a foucaultian analysis of grades / Kathleen Blake Yancey and Brian Huot
  • Peter Elbow and the cynical subject / Michael Bernard-Donals.
  • Differences of opinion: an exchange of views / Peter Elbow and Michael Bernard-Donals
  • Grading as a rhetorical construct / Nick Carbone and Margaret Daisley
  • Resisting reform: grading and social reproduction in a secondary classroom / Steven VanderStaay
  • Politics of cross-institutional grading: an adjunct's dilemma / Pauline Uchmanowicz
  • Politics and perils of portfolio grading / Maureen Neal
  • Grading in a process-based writing classroom / Christopher C. Weaver
  • Gender and grading: "immanence" as a path to "transcendence?" / Irene Papoulis.
  • Grade the learning, not the writing / Cheryl Smith and Angus Dunstan
  • Changing grading while working with grades / Peter Elbow
  • Conversation continues: a dialogue on grade inflation / Kathleen Blake Yancey, Michael Bernard-Donals, Margaret Daisley, Maureen Neal, Steven VanderStaay, Nick Carbone, and Brain Huot.

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