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Grading Students' Classroom Writing: Issues and Strategies

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This small yet powerful book is a must-have resource for creating writing assignments as well as providing feedback critical to the development of skills needed for effective communication. Speck takes the faculty-reader beyond the basic role of simply judging a students' writing style to one of providing feedback that will spur students to reach, and attain, higher-level skills. Especially helpful are the variety of scoring guides that convey assignment criteria to students in a concrete manner. Even more helpful is the example of "effective written comments" provided. The tone assumed by the faculty in the example is somewhere between critique, editor, and coach--a combination that evaluates (for the requisite grading aspect) while at the same time providing quality commentary. College faculty who use the strategies in this book will raise the value they provide to their students.