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Writing Assessment

One task of secondary English teachers is to assess students’ writing. If you’ve hit the ceiling when it comes to correcting compositions, then this practical course on written expression and its assessment is for you.

One of our tasks as secondary English teachers is to assess our students’ writing. This implies that teachers themselves know what makes a good text in English. If you feel like you’ve hit the ceiling when it comes to correcting your students’ compositions, then this is the course for you. We will focus on important aspects of written expression in English, such as audience, purpose, tone, brainstorming techniques, paragraph structure, genre structures, and elements of style (e. g. information structure in a sentence, formal vs. informal language, basic punctuation). On a more practical level, we will then correct, analyze and compare examples of our students’ writing.