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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213817103321

Autore

Huot Brian A

Titolo

Rearticulating writing assessment for teaching and learning / Brian Huot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan : , : Utah State University Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-283-26694-6

9786613266941

0-87421-470-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Disciplina

808/.042/071

808.042071

Soggetti

College prose - Evaluation

Report writing - Evaluation

Grading and marking (Students)

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-212) and index.

Nota di contenuto

(Re) articulating writing assessment -- Writing assessment as a field of study -- Assessing, grading, testing and teaching writing -- Toward a new theory for writing assessment -- Reading like a teacher -- Writing assessment as technology and research -- Writing assessment practice.

Sommario/riassunto

Brian Huot's aim for this book is both ambitious and provocative. He  wants to reorient composition studies' view of writing assessment. To  accomplish this, he not only has to inspire the field to perceive  assessment--generally not the most appreciated area of study--as deeply  significant to theory and pedagogy, he also has to counter some common  misconceptions about the history of assessment in writing.  In (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment, Huot advocates a new  understanding, a more optimistic and productive one than we have seen in  composition for a very long time. As