Teaching and Assessing Writing (Jossey Bass Higher & Adult Education Series) - Hardcover

In this thoroughly revised and completely reorganized second edition, White offers the latest theoretical and practical materials that instructors in English and across the disciplines will need in order to help students build strong writing skills.The first edition of Edward M. White's Teaching and Assessing Writing was called "required reading for the profession" when it was published in 1985. White draws especially on new knowledge about assessment to offer effective methods of evaluation and feedback. And he shows how the use of assessment by teachers can greatly assist the process of learning to write.

EDWARD M. WHITE is professor of English at California State University, San Bernadino. In 1993, he was elected to a second term on the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. White is also the author of Developing Successful College Writing Programs (1989) and Assigning, Responding, and Evaluating (1992), and coeditor of Inquiry (1993).