Teaching Writing

I'm looking forward to our class on Monday. Please bring a paragraph of a favorite writing and the 55-short short story. References below. If possible, I'll post the PowerPoint.

Have a nice weekend,

Linda

— Alternatives to Grading Students Collected Works, non- classroom abstract, investigation into the grading of writing by the National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Alternatives to Grading Student Writing. See “Using a Multidimensional Scoring Guide” by Gail M. Young and “Using Rubrics and Holistic Scoring of Writing: by Jean S. Ketter, retrieved online.

— Excerpts from On Writing Well, by William Zinsser, 1998, http://www.la.wayne.edu/polisci/dkd/general/sources/zinsser.htm.

— “Feedback on Feedback: Exploring Student Responses to Teachers’ Written Commentary,” by Maria Ornella Treglia, originally published Journal of Basic Writing, Vo.l. 27, No. 1, 2008, retrieved online.

— “High Stakes and Low Stakes in Assigning and Responding to Writing,” by Peter Elbow, originally published New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 69, Spring 1997, retrieved online.

— Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom: Using Performance Criteria for Assessing and Improving Student Performance, by Judith Arter and Jay McTighe, except of review retrieved online.

— “Scoring Rubric: What, When, and How?” by Barbara M. Moskal, Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation,” a peer-reviewed electronic journal, 2000, http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=7&n=3.

— “Teaching Journalistic Cogency With 55-Word Short Stories,” by Richard A. Kallan, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, Autumn 200, retrieved online.

— “Teaching Journalism in the Information Age,” by Stephen Quinn, Australian Studies in Journalism 8: 1999, retrieved online.

— “Teaching Writing in Higher Education,” from Handbook of Research on Writing, edited by Charles Bazerman.

— Teaching Writing as a Process Not Product,” by Donald M. Murray, original paper presented at the 1972 convention of the New England Association of Teachers of English, retrieved online.