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Pragmatic Politics: Using Assessment Tools to (Re)Shape a Curriculum.

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Meeker, Linda Hanson – Journal of Basic Writing, 1990

Discusses how examination of the assessment criteria in a basic writing program prompted fruitful, continuing program evaluation and change. Reports that the assessment study validated efforts to deemphasize grammar and spelling instruction in basic writing courses. (MM)

Descriptors: Basic Writing, Curriculum Development, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education

Culture and Literacy.

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Hirsch, E. D., Jr. – Journal of Basic Writing, 1980

Examines research on cultural literacy (knowledge of what others know) and relates this research to writing skills and the teaching of writing. (RL)

Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Research, Course Content, Cultural Context