Responding to Audience: Using Rubrics to Teach and Assess Writing.

Wyngaard, Sandra; Gehrke, Rachel

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ERIC Number: EJ533962

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1996

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Responding to Audience: Using Rubrics to Teach and Assess Writing.

Wyngaard, Sandra; Gehrke, Rachel

English Journal, v85 n6 p67-70 Oct 1996

Puts forth a plan for raising student consciousness about audience through peer evaluation sessions. Targets three areas of effective autobiographical writing: an engaging opening; focus; and showing, not telling. Discusses grading rubrics for these categories appropriate for student readers. (TB)

Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Autobiographies, Peer Evaluation, Personal Narratives, Reading Skills, Scoring Rubrics, Secondary Education, Writing (Composition), Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Note: Special Issue: Writing Practice/Writing Theory.