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3. Gathering and Evaluating Evidence - The Classroom Inquiry Cycle: An Online Tutorial

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Syllabus Components - Teaching Improvement Guide

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A. Rubrics - Teaching Improvement Guide

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Course Inventory Management

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Rhetorical Terms by Type

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White Paper on Writing Assessment in Colleges and Universities

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:10:28 +0000

This white paper is meant to help teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders articulate the general positions, values, and assumptions on writing assessment that both the National Council of Teachers of English and the Council of Writing Program Administrators jointly endorse.

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PHD Comics: On Feedback

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:45:56 +0000

Commentary on how professors sometimes give feedback

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Writing Effective Essay Exam Questions

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:16:11 +0000

Although essay questions are one of the most commonly used methods for assessing student learning, many are poorly designed and ineffectively used. Writing effective essay questions requires training and practice. There are subtle characteristics of effective essay questions that are often difficult to discern for those without adequate training. This workbook was developed to provide training and practice in discerning the often difficult to see characteristics of effective essay questions and to support educators in the development and use of essay questions.

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An Evaluation of the IntelliMetric SM Essay Scoring System

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:21:10 +0000

This report provides a two-part evaluation of the IntelliMetric SM automated essay scoring system based on its performance scoring essays from the Analytic Writing Assessment of the Graduate Management Admission Test™ (GMAT™). The IntelliMetric system performance is first compared to that of individual human raters, a Bayesian system employing simple word counts, and a weighted probability model using more than 750 responses to each of six prompts.

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Assess Written Communication Skills without Adding to Your Workload

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:23:10 +0000

Better Writing. Better Outcomes. Write Experience. Facilitated by: Michelle Lockard and Erin Joyner, Cengage Learning Audience: This session is designed for business instructors who are interested in assessing and imporoving written communication and critical thinking skills of their students without adding to their workload.

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Poets & Writers: Tools for Writers

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:55:20 +0000

Our staff carefully sifts through piles of claims, statements, and announcements to compile resources with real value to writers, including our databases of creative writing contests and grants for writers, MFA programs, literary journals, and much more.

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Duotrope Publishing Opportunities

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:53:33 +0000

Welcome to Duotrope, an award-winning, free writers' resource listing over 3525 current Fiction and Poetry publications. Use this page to search for markets that may make a fine home for the piece you just polished. Use the menus at the top and right to explore the rest of the free services we offer writers and editors, including a free online submissions tracker for registered users. We usually make several updates per day, and we check each of the current listings regularly (at least once a month) to ensure the most up-to-date database humanly possible. So far this week, we have checked guidelines for 81 listings, and we have made 4 listing updates. The last update was made 0 hour(s) and 33 minute(s) ago.

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NewPages Publishing Opportunities

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:52:57 +0000

News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary magazines, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more.

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SAT Reading, Writing Scores Hit Record Low

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:39:14 +0000

SAT scores for the high-school graduating class of 2011 fell in all three subject areas, and the average reading and writing scores were the lowest ever recorded, according to data released on Wednesday. The results from the college-entrance exam, taken by about 1.6 million students, also revealed that only 43% of students posted a score high enough to indicate they were ready to succeed in college, according to the College Board, the nonprofit that administers the exam. Students had to score a 1550 out of a possible 2400 to meet that benchmark, which would indicate a 65% chance of getting at least a B-minus average in the first year of college, the Board calculated.

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Using Google Docs Forms to Run a Peer-Review Writing Workshop

Thu, 05 May 2011 19:36:40 +0000

"Google Docs are easier to comment on and return to students. My students and I also don’t need to worry about which version of a given document is attached to which email, since we share a online documents rather than exchanging files."

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The Citation Project

Thu, 05 May 2011 17:34:58 +0000

Preventing Plagiarism, Teaching Writing: "The Citation Project begins the process of providing descriptive data. Our team systematically studies student papers that were produced in college writing courses and that draw on sources. Our purpose is to describe how student writers use their sources. With this information, educators will be able to make informed decisions about best practices for formulating plagiarism policies and for teaching rhetorically effective and ethically responsible methods of writing from sources."

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Digital Is: Interdisciplinary Writing Resources - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:20:16 +0000

"One of the most exciting initiatives of the National Writing Project (NWP) is called Digital Is: a collection of resources, reflections, and stories about what it means to teach writing in our digital, interconnected world.”

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Writing Boosts Grades in Stanford Study

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:54:59 +0000

The grade point averages of black students who participated in a reading and writing exercise went up by almost a third of a grade between their sophomore and senior years. Participants were asked to write essays and asked to illustrate their essays with stories of their own lives, and then rewrite their essays into speeches.

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