Resources: Written assessment

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Developing collaborative academic writing communities and a collaborative writer's toolbox

This is an ESCalate development grant for a project awarded to Jane Speedy of the University of Bristol The aim of this project is to promote the discussion and development of writing styles and identities as a creative, collaborative aspect of life in the academy for staff and students alike. A practical outcome will be the generation of web-based learning materials, together with an ESCalate publication, that can be used by staff and...

Supporting the academic writing of widening participation students

This is a brief description of a student project grant from ESCalate to Joelle Adams of the University of Bath. The project aims to investigate widening participation students’ experiences of writing in higher education and develop suggestions for pedagogical practice to help those students learn effectively in the academy. Using a critical ethnography approach, data will be gathered through a in-depth focus group with students who are the first...

'Wordle soup - how to make feedback more nourishing'

This is an ESCalate Hot Topic by Rebecca Bell of Nottingham Trent University on using the web tool ‘Wordle’ to help students make sense of their feedback. This approach would work by encouraging students to submit all of their module, term or even year’s feedback into Wordle (simple cut and paste). The output then consists of a visually appealing ‘word cloud’ with the most common words prominently displayed, helping students to identify their key...

ESCalate newsletter issue 2, summer 2005

This is the ESCalate newsletter issue 2, published in summer 2005. Articles in this issue include: Education stories in the media, Jenny Moon - Putting Writing at the Centre, Ruth Leitch - Outstanding dissertation award, Student writing award scheme - the winners, Development grants - the next steps, In conversation with...Alison Fox, PDP are you ready?, Editorial by Dr Tony Brown. It is presented as a single PDF file of some 12 pages

Investigating student writing with help from ESCalate

This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 14, summer 2009 by Joelle Adams of Bath Spa University. As a previous recipient of an ESCalate student grant, Joelle tells her story about how it has enabled her to progress with her research and her professional career