I have just completed the grading of the Timed Write from Thursday, 17 February. The grades ranged from 70 to 100; the average grade was an 85. I am particularly concerned with the number of students who experienced difficulty with the writing of the introduction and/or responding to the prompt.
http://kdiedrich.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/3/
Click on the above link for a 3-page resource document (Download, Print, and place in your 3-ring binder-that I will check).
We will discuss the timed-writes during the week of 1 March. I would like everyone to bring in a package of multi-colored highlighters. Since too many students are not reviewing papers of classmates who scored higher than they did, we will "analyze" randomly selected timed-writes (without revealing names) "highlighting" specific features of the rhetorical analysis.
For those individuals absent for this timed-write, you will make-it up during 37 1/2 minute tutorial by the end of the day on Tuesday, 1 March. Be advised that you will NOT analyze the same timed-write. Make your own inference as to why this is so.
