Kairosnews article on Writing Assessment in Comp Classes . Interesting to see some of the things I've been thinking about since last May coming into discussion.
At CCCC we saw lots of technology chats, and the beginnings of some rich talk about pedagogy, and a few discussions about assessment like Dennis' talk on grading and "forced blogging."
There's also talk about the dreaded Freshman personal writing assignments at Writing
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