If you are among the grading contract curious, perhaps you can learn from my experience and missteps along the way. This is the story of my journey in my first-year writing course where I only managed ...

Grading in a writing course involves balancing several ideas: clarifying effective writing and communication in the discipline, including students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and ...

Last semester, I approached my CORE 111 writing seminar class with apprehension. I had always heard how ruthless college writing courses could be. I expected unachievable grading standards, especially ...

I have seen the glories of using a grading contract in my first-year writing course and I am never going back to my previous ways. Hallelujah! Amen! Pass the beans. My motives for giving the grading ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American University is hosting a seminar next month that will teach its faculty a new approach to grading its students' writing — ...

Why is Grading a Challenge? Grading is a major concern for many new teachers and a lot of more experienced ones as well. Our perceptions of grading practices are influenced largely by our own ...

When Diane Gayeski, a professor of strategic communications at Ithaca College, receives an essay from one of her students, she runs part of it through ChatGPT, asking the AI tool to critique and ...