| Designing Writing Tasks for the Assessment of Writing Contributor(s): Ruth, Leo (Author), Murphy, Sandra (Author) |
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ISBN: 0893913391 ISBN-13: 9780893913397 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1988 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Business & Economics |
| Dewey: 808.042 |
| LCCN: 87019688 |
| Series: Milford Series |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.42 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |