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Haswell, Richard and Susan Wyche-Smith. "Adventuring into Writing
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Abstract:
The authors discuss what they deem a "success story" of how they and writing faculty reclaimed their land grant university's assessment program. They offer the narrative of their work in contrast to what they perceive as a stereotyped story of teachers victimized by administrative interests. They claim the "moral is that writing teachers should be leery of assessment tools made by others" but "should, and can, make their own."
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