Outlines a technique for improving student writing across the disciplines through postwriting evaluation sessions. (FL)

Discusses the findings of a study of teachers' written comments and evaluations of student essays. Among the results of the study are the fact that most teachers' comments were not text specific. (HTH)

Examines how the relationship between teacher and student alters the connection between the writer's authority and the quality of the reader's attention. Discusses how teachers assess student writing from the perspective of an "ideal text," at the expense of discerning what the student is actually trying to say. (HTH)

Offers several strategies that can be used by social studies teachers to incorporate more writing into their classrooms. (FL)

Suggests activities for using newspapers in the composition classroom. Activities include using information from newspapers during the creative process, using journalistic style to illustrate composition techniques, and using the paper as a tool in learning how to evaluate writing. (HTH)

Discusses a basic news reporting class in which students were graded on how well they graded peer papers. (HOD)

Discusses two types of student writing problems: error characteristics (spelling, pronoun usage, subject-verb agreement, run-on sentences, and capitalization) and nonerror characteristics (density of ideas, variety of referents, and variety of expression). Suggests ways to diagnose and correct them. (HTH)

Discusses the growing interest in competency testing in writing at the college level, the growing dependence on minimal essays as the norm for "correct" composition, and the resulting decline in grace and style in college composition. (Author/HTH)

Illustrates a change in emphasis on grading for form and content which has occurred in English composition by giving examples from a study conducted in 1972 and 1978 in which seven instructors of English composition were given the same essay to grade six years apart. (MKM)

Explores some of the most frequent kinds of interactions that might occur between student and teacher in a conference. (HOD)

Focuses on the nature and problems presented by grading student essays. Offers some solutions to those problems and reasons why it makes sense to put the burden of proof for grading on students so that a constructive dialog can develop between students and teacher. (TB)

Describes a videotape containing interviews with students, faculty, and external evaluators shown at the Conference on Basic Writers workshop; participants then experienced assessment techniques used to evaluate the project's success. Gives an account of the project, a detailed description of the means of assessing it, and suggestions for how and…

Presents a colloquium (based on exchange of opinions on the "Bizcom" listserv on the Internet) that explores the concept of writing well. Illustrates the influence of electronic mediation on the communication process. (SR)

Reviews briefly accounting writing skill research, discusses the subject bias prevalent in that research, and relates this weakness to a potential bias toward grammar and syntax in curriculum development. Argues that the user of accounting information is an important but neglected party in the communication process, whose input should be…

Discusses how technology complicates the submission and return of assignments in distance education courses. Notes that although software provides some solutions, marking papers and providing meaningful feedback to students in an online environment proves to be more complicated and time consuming than the traditional pen-on-paper method. Considers…