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Teaching Writing to First-Year Students

This article explores what can be expected from first-year students in their writing, and what qualities are sought in their writing. It also discusses the use of rubrics in assessing sample papers and comparing assessments. The article highlights important factors to consider when teaching writing and emphasizes the validity and reliability of writing assessments.

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Teaching Writing to First-Year Students

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  1. Teaching Writing to First-Year Students Jen Talbot Associate Professor of Writing, School of Communication

  2. Part 1: What can we expect from first-year students? What are we looking for in their writing? Part 2: Using rubrics to assess sample papers, and comparing assessments.

  3. What we know about teaching writing • Writing is a social, cognitive, and expressive process. • Writing is deeply situated. • Writing is a means of performing professional and/or disciplinary identity. Which means… • There are a wide range of factors at play in any writing task. • Every writing task is different. • Writing skills mastered in one genre or discipline do not necessarily transfer into another genre or discipline.

  4. Assessing writing Validity: refers to the level of accuracy with which a criterion or instrument measures what it is intended to measure. Reliability: refers to the frequency with which a criterion or instrument produces stable and consistent results. Typically in assessment, increased validity will also result in increased reliability. However, because of writing’s situatedness, validity and reliability in writing assessment are not always directly proportional. Example: Vocabulary tests are a reliable measure that are correlated with writing ability, but are an indirect measure. An essay is a more valid test of writing ability, but because there is room for interpretation in assessment, it is less reliable.

  5. Effective Communication Rubric B Central message Organization Supporting material/evidence Context and audience Control of syntax and mechanics

  6. Levels of Revision Global Revision Substantive Editing Copyediting Proofreading

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