Designing Writing Tasks for the Assessment of Writing

by Leo Ruth and Sandra Murphy

Book Overview

This volume reports the results of a series of investigations of the properties of writing tasks, their authors' intentions, and the responses that these tasks evoked in student-writers and teacher-raters. The volume explains how both student-writers and teacher-raters, in their reading of the same topic/text, can arrive at different meanings. The investigations undertaken led the authors to make a number of recommendations about selecting subjects,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893914304
• ISBN13: 9780893914301
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"