Views of revision and its role in writing have changed dramatically over the last two
decades. This article first presents a historical perspective on revision and suggests a …

Use your course's big ideas to accelerate students' growth as writers and critical thinkers
The newly revised third edition of Engaging Ideas delivers a step-by-step guide for …

Because writing teachers invest so much time responding to student writing and because
these responses reveal the assumptions teachers hold about writing, L1 writing researchers …

In Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies, Asao B. Inoue theorizes classroom writing
assessment as a complex system that is “more than” its interconnected elements. To explain …

A review of research on the structure of writing processes shows that writing is goal directed,
that goals are hierarchically organized, and that writers use 3 major processes—planning …

Revision is a perplexing subject. Everyone, including the students who don't do it, seems to
acknowledge its virtue. Yet the research on revision points up a decided split between …

The primary purpose of this chapter is to present a new model of the revision process in
written composition-a model based on the results of thinking-aloud protocol studies. We …

Brian Huot's aim for this book is both ambitious and provocative. He wants to reorient
composition studies' view of writing assessment. To accomplish this, he not only has to …

Both in our teaching and in our research, self-evaluation is coming to be recognized as an
important facet of the writing process. Donald Murray first opened our eyes to the importance …

This study reports the results of analysis of 6,129 revisions in 100 randomly selected sets of
twelfth grade students* drafts of an informative/argumentative essay. An exhaustive and …