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Kathleen Blake Yancey. Looking Back as We Look Forward: Historicizing Writing Assessment.

Yancey, Kathleen Blake. "Looking Back as We Look Forward: Historicizing Writing Assessment." CCC 50.3 (1999): 483-503.

Abstract:

Yancey uses a wave metaphor for the overlapping trends in writing assessment since 1950. Assessment as a practice has become a rhetorical act with ideological and ethical dimensions, and continues to evolve from focus on singular writing acts by individuals to multiple writing samples collected in portfolios, consideration of writer identity, programmatic assessment, and knowledge-making in the teaching of and research about writing.

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