Teaching and Assessing Writing: Recent Advances in Understanding, Evaluating, and Improving Student Performance

White, Edward M.

ISBN 10: 096632336X / ISBN 13: 9780966323368

Published by Calendar Islands Pub, Portland, ME, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teaching and Assessing Writing: Recent Advances in Understanding, Evaluating, and Improving Student Performance
• Publisher: Calendar Islands Pub, Portland, ME
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 096632336X
• ISBN 13: 9780966323368
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • LITERATURE & LANGUAGE
  • EDUCATION

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Synopsis

@PQ:White's new edition of Teaching and Assessing Writing retains its place as the best one-source examination of issues and techniques. Sensible, thorough, even-handed--it is useful for both the novice teacher and the experienced administrator in designing writing classes and programs that can serve many kinds of students fairly.

@PQS:?Richard Lloyd Jones, professor of English, University of Iowa

In this thoroughly revised and completely reorganized second edition, White offers the latest theoretical and practical materials that instructors in English and across the disciplines will need in order to help students build strong writing skills.

From the Inside Flap

In this thoroughly revised and completely reorganized second edition, White offers the latest theoretical and practical materials that instructors in English and across the disciplines will need in order to help students build strong writing skills.The first edition of Edward M. White's Teaching and Assessing Writing was called "required reading for the profession" when it was published in 1985. White draws especially on new knowledge about assessment to offer effective methods of evaluation and feedback. And he shows how the use of assessment by teachers can greatly assist the process of learning to write.