While most English professionals feel comfortable with language and literacy theories,
assessment theories seem more alien. English professionals often don't have a clear …

In a provocative book-length essay, Patricia Lynne argues that most programmatic
assessment of student writing in US public and higher education is conceived in the terms of …

Large-scale writing programs can add value to the traditional timed writing assessment by
using aspects of the essays to assess the effectiveness of institutional goals, programs, and …

Background Gambling can cause significant health and social harms for individuals, their
families, and communities. While many studies have explored the individual factors that may …

Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of
engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of …

Recent scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies theorizes agency as irreducible to
human cause-and-effect. While this theory infiltrates many disciplinary conversations …

Academic literacy is a policy goal universities implement through curricular and assessment
decisions that are generally discipline-based. Disciplinary genres are traditionally seen as …

The writing program administration literature in rhetoric and composition has long advocated
the use of local data to determine the direction each writing program should take. Using a …

Academic literacy is a policy goal universities implement through curricular and assessment
decisions that are generally discipline-based. Disciplinary genres are traditionally seen as …

Scholars in the field of rhetoric and composition are still only beginning to grasp the need for
crucial examination of writing assessment as a locally-constructed, fully collaborative and …