Teaching and Assessing Writing : Recent Advances in Understanding, Evaluating, and Improving Student Performance (Higher and Adult Education Ser.)

White, Edward M.

ISBN 10: 0875896413 / ISBN 13: 9780875896410

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, Hoboken, NJ, U.S.A., 1985

About this Item

First edition. Fine/no DJ. Light edgewear at boards. Text is clean, spine tight. A great reading copy!

Seller Inventory # GR080914B601

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teaching and Assessing Writing : Recent Advances in Understanding, Evaluating, and Improving Student Performance (Higher and Adult Education Ser.)
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, Hoboken, NJ, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875896413
• ISBN 13: 9780875896410
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nonfiction

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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.