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EXERCISES
1. Remember when you were an elementary student. Who was your favorite
teacher? Why? How did he or she grade your work? Who was your least
favorite teacher? How did he or she grade your work?
2. Write a brief "writing autobiography." Write about when you first started to
write and how you developed through school as a writer. What were your
feelings about yourself as a writer at different stages in your "writing life"?
Were these feelings related to the grades you got in school? Why or why
not?
3. Plot yourself on the following "feelings about grading" continuum. Explain
why you placed yourself where you did.
I think about
quitting my job
when I have to
grade papers. 		I have no feelings
about grading -- I
don't care one way
or the other. 		I look forward
to grading.

References

Anson Chris, ed. Writing and Response: Theory, Practice, and Research. Urbana, IL:
National Council of Teachers of English, 1989.

Cleary Linda Miller. From the Other Side of the Desk: Students Speak Out About Writing.
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1991.

Goodman Kenneth, Yetta Goodman and Wendy Hood, eds. The Whole Language
Evaluation Book. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1989.

Graves Donald. Writing: Teachers and Children at Work. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann,
1983.

Hairston Maxine. "Thomas Kuhn and the Winds of Change", College Composition and
Communication, 33 ( 1982), pp. 76-88.

Kirby Dan and Tom Liner. Inside Out: Developmental Strategies for Teaching Writing, 2nd
ed. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1988.

Lindemann Ericka. A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1987.

Schwartz Mimi, ed. Writer's Craft, Teacher's Art: Teaching What We Know. Portsmouth,
NH: Heinemann, 1991.

Smith Frank. Joining the Literacy Club. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1988.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Evaluating Children's Writing: A Handbook of Communication Choices for Classroom Teachers. Contributors: Suzanne Bratcher - author. Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Place of Publication: Mahwah, NJ. Publication Year: 1994. Page Number: 7.
    
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