International advances in writing research cultures, places, measures (Parlor Press, 2012)
Papers presented at the 2011 WRAB conference
Includes bibliographical references
Front cover ; Series page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Acknowledgments; Contents ; Introduction; Section 1. Pedagogical Approaches; Chapter 1. Academic Writing Instruction in Australian Tertiary Education: The Early Years; Kate Chanock; Chapter 2. Teacher's Perceptions of English Language Writing Instruction in China; Danling Fu and Marylou Matoush; Chapter 3. Access and Teachers' Perceptions of Professional Development in Writing; Sarah J. McCarthey, Rebecca L. Woodard, and Grace Kang; Chapter 4. Multimodality in Subtitling for the Deaf and the Hard-of-Hearing Education in Brazil
Vera Lúcia Santiago AraújoSection 2. Assessment; Chapter 5. Rethinking K-12 Writing Assessment to Support Best Instructional Practices; Paul Deane, John Sabatini, and Mary Fowles; Chapter 6. Automated Essay Scoring and The Search for Valid Writing Assessment; Andrew Klobucar, Norbert Elliot, Paul Deane, Chaitanya Ramineni, Perry Deess, and Alex Rudniy; Chapter 7. Construct Validity, Length, Score, and Time in Holistically Graded Writing Assessments: The Case against Automated Essay Scoring (AES); Les Perelman; Chapter 8. The Politics of Research and Assessment in Writing
Peggy O'Neill, Sandy Murphy, and Linda Adler-KassnerChapter 9. Prominent Feature Analysis: Linking Assessment and Instruction; Sherry S. Swain, Richard L. Graves, David T. Morse, and Kimberly J. Patterson; Chapter 10. "A Matter of Personal Taste": Teachers' Constructs of Writing Quality in the Secondary School English Classroom; Helen Lines; Section 3. Writing at the Borders of School and the World; Chapter 11. The Reality of Fiction-writing in Situations of Political Violence; Colette Daiute; Chapter 12. Naming in Pupil Writings (9 to 14 Years Old)