...Octavia Davis Upon entering college composition courses, students often report a dislike for writing. Because researchers report that writing anxiety may be linked to high-stakes writing exams, a study of graduates of New York high schools was conducted to investigate whether the state's Regents...

... standards in writing. I document the process of building a new writing assessment program, including a writing assessment exam and a remediation program. I discuss our rubric and scoring procedures, samples of student work, and the poor score trends for our exam. I describe the difficulties in working...

... nonverbal, to talk and communicate have inspired me to create strategies that help students review grammatical material for exams in a highly effective way. Teaching, I have learned, can happen in the absence of speech. My research about the history of the treatment of individuals with intellectual...

... and the rationale behind it; delves into specific examples of discussions and assignments based on such texts as Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow ; and examines students’ own ultimate responses to the class as presented in their final exam reflection essays. Ultimately...

... crossing state lines to attend college, rst-year writing classrooms across the country most likely contain students whose experience of writing instruc- tion includes preparing for and taking a high-stakes essay-writing exam. Despite the proliferation of mandatory testing for graduation, however...

... experience of writing instruc- tion includes preparing for and taking a high-stakes essay-writing exam. Despite the proliferation of mandatory testing for graduation, however, very little research addresses how well standardized exams prepare students for their future studies or professions or how...

... crossing state lines to attend college, rst-year writing classrooms across the country most likely contain students whose experience of writing instruc- tion includes preparing for and taking a high-stakes essay-writing exam. Despite the proliferation of mandatory testing for graduation, however...

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... accurately, within and beyond — curricular and institutional boundaries. At my university, the two-hour timed exam to place all newly entering students — both first-year and transfer students — into introductory writing courses is given several times each term. The exam has been in place for more...

... of a literary text through a theoretical lens — we do a variety of “against the grain” exercises in class. (See fig. 2 for the complete assignment.) For exam- ple, in a topic-based writing course on vampire film and fiction, we spend the first day looking at posters advertising several twentieth-century...

... example here.) As students work toward their first essay assignment — a close reading of a literary text through a theoretical lens — we do a variety of “against the grain” exercises in class. (See fig. 2 for the complete assignment.) For exam- ple, in a topic-based writing course on vampire...

... of “against the grain” exercises in class. (See fig. 2 for the complete assignment.) For exam- ple, in a topic-based writing course on vampire film and fiction, we spend the first day looking at posters advertising several twentieth-century vampire films. Examining the poster for Guy Maddin’s 2003...

... deeper issue in the study of Romanti- cism. Even now, as I prepare for my Ph.D. qualifying exams, I find myself hav- ing to defend the choices that I have made with regard to the inclusion (or exclusion) of certain female (and male) authors, both to my committee and to myself. As invested as I am...

..., though I have not included attention to teaching writing for the impromptu, timed writing exam in any of my composition courses, I nonetheless find the spirit of his argument that we need to teach the vocabulary of the timed writing prompt compelling. White wisely argues that this is most...

.... This is what happens when a department covets the UP label for its courses but, for various reasons, doesn t actually require any writing in them (Scantron exams are so much easier). The General Educa- tion Council estimates that 30 percent of the UP courses that are supposed to be writing-intensive aren t...

... Lake    Integrating Writing, Thinking, and Learning  581 exploratory writing, as practice exam questions, and as class discussion start- ers), and to teach and coach students in the ways a discipline uses evidence to support claims. Bean’s tone (throughout, but especially in the opening chapter...

... Science 59 , no. 3 : 690 – 707 . Jamison Leslie . 2014 . “ The Empathy Exams .” In The Empathy Exams: Essays , by Jamison Leslie , 1 – 26 . Minneapolis, MN : Graywolf Press . King Rosamond . 2013 . “ They Ask, Should We Tell? Thoughts on Disclosure in the Classroom...

... AM Page 355 dents have been empowered by the inclusion of noncanonical women: they have challenged faculty to defend their selections, have criticized these texts aesthetic value, have questioned their relevance to Ph.D. exams and the Grad- uate Record Examination (GRE). At the same time...

..., Composition, and Culture Volume 1, Number 2, © 2001 Duke University Press PED 1.2-12 Anderson 3/27/01 11:50 AM Page 343 The archaeological part of the mix I learned firsthand. To prepare for an oral exam, I remember, I had to request through interlibrary loan old vol- umes of collected works by poets I had...