Evaluation and Response: A Bibliography

These sources provide a variety of approaches to evaluating and responding to student work.

Allison, Libby, Lizbeth Bryant, Maureen Hourigan, Eds. Grading in the Post-Process Classroom: From Theory to Practice. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1997.

Anson, Chris. "Reflective Reading: Developing Thoughtful Ways to Respond to Students’ Writing." Evaluating Writing: The Role of Teachers’ Knowledge about Text, Learning, and Culture." Charles Cooper and Lee Odell, Eds. Urbana: NCTE, 1999.

-----. Writing and Response: Theory, Practice and Research. Urbana: NCTE, 1989.

Bauman, Marcy. "What Grades Do for Us and How to Do Without Them." The Allyn and Bacon Sourcebook for College Writing Teachers. James C. MacDonald, Ed. Boston: Allyn-Bacon, 2000. 412-25.

Bean, John C. Engaging ideas: The professor's guide to integrating writing, critical thinking and active learning in the classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.

Bloom, Lyn Z. "Why I (Used to) Hate to Give Grades." Teaching Composition: Background Readings. T.R. Johnson and Shirley Morahan, Eds. New York: Bedford, 2002. 374-83.

Brannon, Lil, and C.H. Knoblauch. "On Students’ Right to Their Own Texts: A Model of Teacher Response." College Composition and Communication 33 (1982): 157-166.

Connors, Robert and Andrea Lunsford. "Teachers’ Rhetorical Comments on Student Papers." College Composition and Communication 44.2 (1993): 200-23.

Elbow, Peter. Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting Out Three Forms of Judging." College English 55.2 (1993): 187-206.

Flower, Linda, and Thomas Hucking. "Reading for Points and Purposes." Journal of Advanced Composition 11.2 (1991): 347-62.

Hartwell, Patrick. "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar." Teaching Composition: Background Readings. T.R. Johnson and Shirley Morahan, Eds. New York: Bedford, 2002. 423-50.

Haswell, Richard. "Minimal Marking." College English 45 (October 1983): 600-604.

Heller, Dana. "Silencing the Soundtrack: An Alternative to Marginal Comments." College Composition and Communication 40 (1989): 210-15.

Hillocks, George, Jr. "The Interaction of Instruction, Teacher Comment, and Revision in Teaching the Composing Process." Research in the Teaching of English 16 (October 1982): 261-82.

Horvath, Brooke. "The Components of Written Response: A Practical Synthesis of Current Views." Rhetoric Review 2.1 (1985): 136-56.

Joliffe, David. "Twelve Readers Reading: Exemplary Responses, Thorny Problems." Assessing Writing 3 (1996): 121-31.

Lawson, Bruce, Susan Sterr Ryan annd W. Rosss Winterowd, Eds. Encountering Student Texts: Interpretive Issues in reading Student Writing. Urbana: NCTE, 1989.

O’Neill, Peggy, and Jane Mathison Fife. "Listening to Students: Contextualizing Response to Student Writing." Composition Studies27 (1999): 39-51.

Rothgery, David. "So What Do we Do Now?" Necessary Directionality as the Writing Teacher’s Response to Racist, Sexist, and Homophobic Papers." Teaching Composition: Background Readings. T.R. Johnson and Shirley Morahan, Eds. New York: Bedford, 2002. 538-45.

Rubin, Donnalee. Gender Influences: Reading Student Texts. Carbondale: Southern Illinois U P, 1993.

Qualley, Donna. "Learning to Evaluate and Grade Student Writing: An Ongoing Conversation." Preparing College Teachers of Writing: Histories, Theories, Programs, Practices. Betty Pytlik and Sarah Liggett, Eds. New York: Oxford U P, 2002. 278-91.

Smith, Summer. "The Genre of the End Comment: Conventions in Teacher Responses to Student Writing." College Composition and Communication 48.2 (1997): 249-68.

Sommers, Nancy. "Responding to Student Writing." College Composition and Communication 1982): 148-56.

Straub, Richard. "The Concept of Control in Teacher Response: Defining Varieties of ‘Directive’ and ‘Facilitative’ Commentary." College Composition and Communication 47.2 (1996): 223-51.

-----. "Reading and Responding to Student Writing: A Hueristic for Reflective Practice." Composition Studies 30.1 (2002): 15-60.

-----. "Teacher Response as Conversation: More than Casual Talk, an Exploration." Rhetoric Review 14 (1996): 374-398.

Straub, Richard and Richard F, Lunsford, Eds. Twelve Readers Reading: Responding to College Student Writing. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 1995.

Tchudi, Stephen, Ed. Alternatives to Grading Student Writing. Urbana: NCTE, 1997.

Thompson, Thomas. "Understanding Attitudes Toward Assessment: The Personality Factor." Assessing Writing 2 (1995): 191-206.

Walvoord, Barbara. Helping Students Write Well: A Guide for Teachers in All Disciplines. New York: MLA, 1990.

Welch, Nancy. "One Student’s Many Voices: Reading, Writing, and Responding with Bakhtin." Journal of Advanced Composition 13.2 (1993): 493-502.

White, Edward. Assigning, Responding, Evaluating: A Writing Teacher’s Guide. New York: St. Martin’s, 1992.

-----. Teaching and Assessing Writing. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1985. (2nd ed. 1994.)

Yancey, Kathleen, Ed. Portfolios in the Writing Classroom. Urbana: NCTE, 1992.

Yancey, Kathleen, and Irwin Weiser, Eds. Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives. Logan: Utah State U P, 1997.

Zak, Frances and Christopher Weaver. The Theory and Practice of Grading Writing. Albany: State U of New York P, 1998.

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