Teachers often worry about the advantages and disadvantages of providing students with a rubric for writing assignments. After all, providing a checklist rubric can result in students who write to ...
Evaluating children's writing can be discouraging. Often it is full of incomplete thoughts, misspellings, erasures. Looking at it from our adult perspective, we tend to see only what is wrong, failing ...
Most Stanford students are familiar with the Hume Writing Center (HWC). As a hotspot for freshmen struggling with Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) assignments as well as graduate students ...
Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Fall 1990), pp. 25-34 (10 pages) Evaluating basic writing textbooks for human interest is complex, yet basic-level writing students ...
Writing instructors need to do more to prevent colleges from adopting tests that only narrowly measure students’ writing abilities, several experts said last week at the annual meeting of the ...
Of all the pearls of wisdom I’ve picked up over the years, among the most valuable consists of just three words: intuition is bias. The Romantic poets may have believed that intuition offers special ...