Designing Writing Tasks for the Assessment of Writing

by Leo Ruth, Sandra Murphy

Overview

This volume reports the results of a series of investigations of the properties of writing tasks, their authors' intentions, and the responses that these tasks evoked in student-writers and teacher-raters. The volume explains how both student-writers and teacher-raters, in their reading of the same topic/text, can arrive at different meanings. The investigations undertaken led the authors to make a number of recommendations about selecting subjects, specifying audience and mode, formulating instructions, and wording the topic. These recommendations are presented in non-technical language in a comprehensive set of Guidelines for Designing Topics for Writing Assessments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780893913397
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1988
Series:	Writing Research
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

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