Designing Writing Tasks for the Assessment of Writing Contributor(s): Ruth, Leo (Author), Murphy, Sandra (Author) |
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ISBN: 0893914304 ISBN-13: 9780893914301 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1988 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric - Business & Economics |
Dewey: 808.042 |
LCCN: 87019688 |
Physical Information: 0.97" H x 5.86" W x 9" (1.09 lbs) 334 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. |