Reviews: Written assessment
8 reviews found for "Written assessment"
- Book Review: Your Undergraduate Dissertation: The Essential Guide For Success
- In essence, this book is a complete guide to undergraduate dissertation writing, covering every aspect of the process, outlining each step from selecting a theme to final writing and submission
- Book review : Writing for academic journals
- This is a book review of Writing for academic journals by Rowena Murray, published by the Open University Press in 2005, ISBN 9780335213924. It was reviewed by Linda Barlow-Meade of Northumbria University on behalf of ESCalate. This book aims to develop academic writing skills and thereby increase the likelihood of successful submissions of academic papers. Murray makes the point that there is an assumption that writing is what academics ‘do’....
- Book Review: Assessing Students' Written Work: Marking Essays and Reports (Effective Teaching in Higher Education S.)
- Assessing Students’ Written Work is one of a series of titles focused primarily on those new to teaching but is useful as a reference text for all practitioners. The other texts in the series are Small Group Teaching, Giving a Lecture: From Presenting to Teaching and Using C&IT to Support Teaching
- Book Review: Teaching Academic Writing: A Toolkit for Higher Education
- This book is a toolkit of resources to support the development of academic writing in Higher Education. It is designed with the needs in mind of both students and their tutors, and provides thoughtful activities and readings to enhance the writing experience for all. It can be used by lecturers to support them in teaching the skills of academic writing to students across disciplines, or by students as a guide to features of good writing
- Book review : The good writing guide for education students
- This a book review of The good writing guide for education students, updated 2nd edition, by Dominic Wyse, published by Sage Publications in 2007 ISBN 9781412948593. It was reviewed by James Williams of the University of Sussex for ESCalate. The book is split into two parts, part 1 being about reading and thinking. Part 2 is about the actual writing process. The guide takes students through the process of wider reading; why it is necessary, how...
- Book review : The authentic dissertation : alternative ways of knowing, research and representation
- This is a book review of The authentic dissertation : alternative ways of knowing, research and representation by Four Arrows (AKA Don Trent Jacobs), published by Routledge in 2008, ISBN 9780415442237. It was reviewed by Alex Melrose of Stockport College on behalf of ESCalate. The book attempts to provide an alternative angle to writing dissertations in order to make them more meaningful and less formulaic, which is, in principal, a worthy idea....
- Book review : Surviving your dissertation : a comprehensive guide to content and process
- This is a book review of Surviving your dissertation : a comprehensive guide to content and process by Kjell Erik Rudestam and Rae R. Newton, published by Sage in 2007, ISBN 9781412916790. It was reviewed by Pamela Parker ofCity University on behalf of ESCalate. The book is clearly divided into three parts which cover ‘Getting Started’, ‘Working With the Content’ and ‘Working With Process’. Getting Started covers the research process, selecting...
- Book Review: The Good Writing Guide for Education Students
- This book does exactly what the title suggests; it is a step-by-step guide to enable undergraduate students to produce good quality written work. It can be read as complete text or used as a reference book to address specific issues such as referencing conventions or punctuation issues and it contains a particularly effective chapter on learning from feedback and using constructive criticism