Richard H. Haswell - Beyond outcomes: assessment and instruction within a university writing program

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BEYOND OUTCOMES

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Assessment and Instruction Within a University Writing Program

Edited by Richard H. Haswell

Perspectives on Writing: Theory, Research, Practice

Kathleen Blake Yancey and Brian Huot, Series Editors

Ablex Publishing

Westport, ConnecticutLondon

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Beyond outcomes : assessment and instruction within a university writing
program / edited by Richard H. Haswell.
p. cm.(Perspectives on writing : Theory, research, practice)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1567506186 (alk. paper)ISBN 1567506194 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. English languageRhetoricStudy and teaching. 2. Report writing
Study and teaching (Higher) 3. College proseEvaluation. I. Haswell,
Richard H. II. Perspectives on writing.
PE1404.B49 2001
808.0420711dc21 00049564

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.

Copyright 2001 by Richard H. Haswell

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 00049564

ISBN: 1-56750-618-6
1-56750-619-4 (pbk.)

First published in 2001
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The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to use the following material:

From the National Council of Teachers of English, for an earlier version of Chapter 2: Richard H. Haswell and Susan Wyche-Smith (1994), Adventuring into assessment, College Composition and Communication 45(2), 220236. Copyright 1994 by the National Council of Teachers of English. Reprinted with permission.

From Ablex Publishing, for an earlier version of Chapter 13: Richard H. Haswell and Susan McLeod (1997), WAC assessment and internal audiences: A dialogue, in Kathleen Yancey and Brian Huot (Eds.), Assessing writing across the curriculum: Diverse approaches and practices (pp. 217236), Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

From Elsevier for parts of Chapter 5: Reprinted from Richard H. Haswell, Rubrics, prototypes and exemplars: Categorization and systems of writing placement. Assessing Writing 5(2), 231268, 1998, with permission from Elsevier Science; for an earlier version of Chapter 10: Reprinted from Richard H. Haswell, Multiple inquiry in the validation of writing tests, Assessing Writing 5(1), 89109, 1998, with permission from Elsevier Science.

From the National Writing Centers Association Press, for an earlier version of Chapter 3: Lisa Johnson-Shull, Susan Wyche and Brian Griffith (1998), The butterfly effect: A multiperspective narrative of the effects of assessment on a writing center, in Carol Peterson Haviland, Maria Notarangelo, Lene Whitley-Putz, and Thia Wolf (Eds.), Weaving knowledge together: Writing centers and collaboration (pp. 5979), Emmitsburg, MD: NWCA Press.

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