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Assessment in Writing

Evaluating Student Writing Using Best Practices and Resources

  • Higher Education
  • Event
  • On-demand
  • Composition Lunch & Learn
  • Connect
  • English – First-Year Composition
  • 45 Minutes
  • On-Demand Video

Description

This session is divided into two parts and helps participants learn about evaluating student writing using best practices and resources available from McGraw Hill’s Connect®. In part one, Dr. Allen Brizee leads the interactive discussion on helping students achieve learning outcomes through backwards design and the equity-focused approach to grading and assessment. In part two, Lynda Haas demonstrates resources available in Connect® that help instructors put into practice the models covered in part one. 

About Your Speaker

  • Allen Brizee -

    Allen Brizee

    Allen Brizee holds a PhD in English focusing on rhetoric and composition from Purdue University. Over the course of his career, he has taught writing and served as an administrator at a wide range of colleges and universities, and he was tenured and promoted to associate professor in 2016. To teach writing, Allen uses community-based learning, and he has conducted assessment at the department and university levels. His most recent article, “Theorizing Public Digital Humanities,” was published by PMLA in 2025. His co-authored textbook, Read, Reason, Write 14e, will be published by McGraw-Hill in January 2027.

  • Lynda Haas -

    Lynda Haas

    Lynda Haas is a Senior Continuing Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches all levels of composition; for 10 years she was also a Writing Program Administrator. Her areas of research include digital pedagogy, digital literacies, visual rhetoric, and the intersections between writing theory, feminism, and film studies. She co-edited a book of essays entitled From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture, and has presented papers at major composition conferences; most recently she presented "Accelerating the Learning of International Students" at the Symposium on Second Language Writing. She has been using McGraw-Hill’s Connect since 2010 and helped pilot several tools as they were released, including the facilitation of an inter-institutional assessment study. She has also served as a Digital Faculty Consultant since 2010, and enjoys talking with other instructors about Connect and digital pedagogy.