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Daytona Beach, Florida

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In their attempt to come to terms with evaluating students' writing, many instructors across the curriculum fall prey to several common misbeliefs, which themselves reflect a paucity of information on the part of evaluates on how to evaluate writing fairly and objectively. Besides being in a quandary about what to evaluate, instructors are not certain either about how to go about assessing students' writing. In this paper, these common misbeliefs are first identified and discussed, after which suggestions are made on how to counter or rectify these types of fallacious thinking. By countering these misbeliefs, instructors can use evaluation as a catalyst to promote better writing skills on the part of the students.

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Assessing Students' Writing: Countering Some Common Misbeliefs

Daytona Beach, Florida

In their attempt to come to terms with evaluating students' writing, many instructors across the curriculum fall prey to several common misbeliefs, which themselves reflect a paucity of information on the part of evaluates on how to evaluate writing fairly and objectively. Besides being in a quandary about what to evaluate, instructors are not certain either about how to go about assessing students' writing. In this paper, these common misbeliefs are first identified and discussed, after which suggestions are made on how to counter or rectify these types of fallacious thinking. By countering these misbeliefs, instructors can use evaluation as a catalyst to promote better writing skills on the part of the students.