[ATTW-L] Labor based grading contracts in editing course

Thu Jul 16 18:11:30 UTC 2020

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for your thoughtful responses. I’m so grateful that many of you have forged the way for me to rethink assessment as I’ve wanted to do for so long. I have many ideas and will happily share my syllabi once I get things sorted.

Best, Hannah

Hannah Bellwoar, PhD
Director of Writing
Associate Professor of English
Juniata College

From: Joseph Jeyaraj <jeyarajjoseph at yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 10:11 AM
To: "attw-l at attw.org" <attw-l at attw.org>, "Bellwoar, Hannah (BELLWOAR)" <BELLWOAR at juniata.edu>
Subject: Re: [ATTW-L] Labor based grading contracts in editing course

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Whenever I have taught the professional editing and revising course (including this Spring), the course ends up emphasizing the processes of editing and the work underlying those processes.

When students, among other things, complete editing exercises by hand using editing symbols, they can go back and do those exercises again if they want to improve their editing skills.

Or for the final course project which involves both editing and publishing a major work, there are lots of opportunities to learn by trial and error and the work underlying that.

While Carolyn Rude's Technical Editing has worked well every time I have taught the course, I have, along with Carolyn's book, also used Saller's The Subversive Editor.

It is a great book that gives students a reality check on what actually happens in the world of editing and can produce insightful conversations on some of the talking points that can come up in an editing course.

Best,

Joseph
On Wednesday, July 15, 2020, 03:34:42 PM EDT, Bellwoar, Hannah (BELLWOAR) <bellwoar at juniata.edu> wrote:

Hi all,

I decided to make the move to labor based grading in all of my classes in the fall. However, I am teaching Professional Editing, and I typically give a mid-term exam in that course. I cannot wrap my head around how to grade an exam based on labor rather than correctness. Any suggestions or ideas for me?

Thanks, Hannah

Hannah Bellwoar, PhD

Director of Writing

Associate Professor of English

Juniata College

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