Dear Scott, Our Writing Center conducts assessment with undergraduate sophomores in Electrical and Computer Engineering. This assessment is designed to help us create programs that will help our students learn the genres of engineering writing. Our Writing Center is grant supported, and one of our purposes is integrating writing into the engineering lab sequence, beginning with this sophomore-level course. The assessment assignment asks students to reflect on a college learning experience and then analyze it. Through these essays, we attempt to find out more about students' criticial thinking skills, such as abilities to reason inductively/deductively. These processes relate directly to the kind of writing the students do when they write lab reports. More recently, we have begun analyzing these essays for retention information, such as level of comfort students communicate having about being in the engineering, academic environment and about working in teams. If I can give you any more info. on this assessment process (which, by the way, is constantly evolving), please let me know. Kris Walker kwalker@engr.sc.edu > -----Original Message----- > From: wcenter [SMTP:wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 1997 4:03 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: assessment question > > > > Hello to all! > > I am presently trying to help my college develop a writing assessment > tool > for use with the undergrad majors in my college in the middle of their > careers. I've been doing a peer institution survey this summer, and > so > far I have found many schools which do some kind of writing assessment > at > the beginning of the undergrad career but not in the middle. Does > anyone > know of an institution that does use this kind of assessment? > > Also, I have been asked to compile a list of web-sites on WAC, and I > imagine you folks must know of some if anyone does. > > I'd appreciate any help you can give me! > > Thanks, > > Scott LaBarge >
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