Foreword by: Vershawn Ashanti Young
Publication Date: June 28, 2024
Pages: 160
Improve your grading and feedback practices to benefit your students and their writing development. This guide models a research-based, linguistically inclusive approach to grading writing so that you can incorporate equitable assessment and feedback into your everyday practice. A linguistically inclusive grading approach honors Black linguistic justice, facilitates students’ use of feedback, and guides students to make rhetorical linguistic choices. Additionally, students will develop skills for responding to organization, word choice, grammar, and mechanics rooted in African American English and other language varieties. Example comments and practices are included throughout the book to assist instructors, including those constrained by mandated grade weighting or rubrics that preclude adopting more extensive changes. A Linguistically Inclusive Approach to Grading Writing will benefit writing instructors across contexts, including teaching online, teaching high-achieving students, and using contract grading.
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Hannah A. Franz is the program associate for graduate advisement at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, and a coauthor of The Indispensable Guide to Undergraduate Research: Success in and Beyond College.
“Franz’s book fills a necessary gap, as it offers teachers direction and plans for assessing student writing. It does so by advancing an important undervalued point: Attending to the linguistic variations of all students is better and beneficial for all student writers.”
—From the Foreword by Vershawn Ashanti Young, director of Black Studies and professor of Communication Arts and English language and literacy, University of Waterloo
“Direct attention to writing in higher education is long overdue. This book is an immediate and comprehensive resource for instructors across disciplines, offering clear tools and practical strategies for grading student writing in empirically informed, inclusive, and equitable ways.”
—Christine Mallinson, Lipitz Distinguished Professor of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and professor of language, literacy, and culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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