Writing and the instructing of writing is altering at a quick velocity. How can educators comprehend writing evaluation as and with know-how within the 21st-century lecture room? Michael Neal contends that new applied sciences are neither the matter nor the answer. as a substitute, educators have to faucet into electronic assets in basic terms inasmuch as they advertise writing and its overview as rhetorical with actual reasons, audiences, and contexts. during this obtainable textual content, Michael Neal offers an leading edge framework for the formative and holistic evaluation of scholars’ electronic composition on the university and highschool point. Chapters handle the new evolution of writing review instruments, the turning out to be pattern of desktop computerized scoring, and the substantial destiny strength of technology-assisted tests.

Book Features:

• Provides frameworks to aid lecturers assessment student-produced multi-media writing.
• Evaluates a variety of present evaluate technologies.
• Addresses matters in regards to the present development of machine-scored composition.
• Suggests methods lecturers can enforce electronic applied sciences to enhance scholar writing in addition to interact learners.

Michael Neal is an assistant professor within the English division at Florida nation University

“The rigidity of exterior pressures at the overview of scholar compositions, writing courses, and academic associations has, in a long way too many instances, ended in a painful misalignment of our paintings as educators.In his provocative e-book, Michael Neal notes that instructing writing and assessing writing are inextricably associated with one another."

—From the Foreword by means of Janet Swenson, affiliate Dean, university of Arts and Letters, Michigan kingdom collage

“Grounding his inquiry in tales and humor, Michael Neal provides a lucid exploration of ways applied sciences and checks remove darkness from and form every one other.  Remarkably, Neal blends a strong command of appropriate theories with a deep reverence for the nuanced complexities of tangible scholars and lecturers operating in particular studying contexts.”

—Bob Broad, professor of English, Illinois nation University