Designing Writing Tasks for the Assessment of Writing

Author/Contributor(s):	Ruth, Leo ; Murphy, Sandra
Publisher:	Praeger
Date:	01/01/1988
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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, specifying audience and mode, formulating instructions, and wording the topic. These recommendations are presented in non-technical language in a comprehensive set of Guidelines for Designing Topics for Writing Assessments.