Teaching and Assessing Writing

Edward M. White

Second Edition, Revised and Expanded.

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0-9663233-6-X (paperback, $20.00); © 1998 by Calendar Islands Publishers. 331 pages with notes, bibliography, and index

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Available for the first time in paperback, the Second Edition of Teaching and Assessing Writing is a thoroughly revised and expanded version of the influential original edition. Here, White provides the latest theoretical and applied methodology, drawing especially on new findings about assessment. This is a thorough study of how and why intelligent, humane approaches to assessment can enhance student writing skills.

In addition, White demonstrates how writing teachers can design better assignments, help students write more effectively, and respond more usefully to student work. This second edition offers a wealth of new material, such as portfolio assessment, theories of reading and how they affect teachers' response to writing, and the development of writing assignments as a central aspect of teaching.

What people are saying about Developing Successful College Writing Programs . . .

All in all, a major book. For those who haven't read the first edition, this is a must read.
— Norman J. Betz, Central Missouri State University

I would be hard-pressed to think of a more authoritative and venerated guru of writing assessment than Edward M. White. For almost a decade, the first edition of Teaching and Assessing Writing represented required reading for both teachers of composition and administrators of writing programs. Since the current second edition lives up to its dust jacket billing of revised and expanded, I hope it will influence writing teachers and programs as much as did the first.
— John W. Taylor, South Dakota State University

All writing teachers and writing program administrators, as well as college administrators interested in large-scale writing assessment, should read this book. It is a masterful presentation of research and practice, by the most knowledgeable scholar in the field.
— Susan H. McLeod, University of California, Santa Barbara

White's new edition of Teaching and Assessing Writing retains its place as the best one-source examination of issues and techniques. Sensible, thorough, even-handed—it is useful for both the novice teacher and the experienced administrator in designing writing classes and programs that can serve many kinds of students fairly.
— Richard Lloyd-Jones, University of Iowa, Past president, National Council of Teachers of English

About the Author

Edward M. White is an emeritus professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino, and a visiting professor of English at the University of Arizona. He is the author of more than a hundred articles and book chapters on literature and the teaching and assessment of writing, and has written or edited thirteen books, including Developing Successful Writing Programs (1989; paperback 1998).

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