New PDF release: Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and

By Carl Whithaus

This e-book takes on a frightening activity: How do writing lecturers proceed to paintings towards getting ready scholars for educational and real-world conversation events, whereas confronted with the expanding use of standardized high-stakes checking out? lecturers desire either the technical skill to house this fact and the ideological ability to critique the knowledge applied sciences and overview equipment which are reworking the writing classroom.

Teaching and comparing Writing within the Age of pcs and High-Stakes Testing serves this twin want through supplying a theoretical framework, real case stories, and functional tools for comparing pupil writing. through studying concerns in writing assessment--ranging from the improvement of digital portfolios to the impression of state-wide, standards-based overview equipment on secondary and post-secondary courses--this publication discovers 4 located thoughts of actual review which are already in use at a couple of locales through the usa. those concepts stress:
*interacting with scholars as communicators utilizing synchronous and asynchronous environments;
*describing the techniques and items of pupil studying instead of enumerating deficits;
*situating pedagogy and review inside structures that include instead of exclude neighborhood variables; and
*distributing overview between different audiences.

By advocating for a versatile approach of communication-based evaluate in computer-mediated writing guide, this ebook validates lecturers' and scholars' stories with writing and in addition recognizes the real-world weight of the hot writing elements at the SAT and ACT, in addition to on state-mandated standardized writing and talent exams.

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