Dan Melzer- University of California, Davis
Dan Melzer
- University of California, Davis
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Introduction
My research interests include writing across the curriculum, writing program administration, and response and assessment.
My new book, Reconstructing Response to Student Writing, has recently been published by University Press of Colorado at www.upcolorado.com.
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This article presents a constructivist writing placement framework, developed from the study of two pilot iterations of a local writing placement mechanism at a large public research university. Through preliminary analysis of data from these pilots, we present a model of constructivist writing placement and demonstrate how it helps move conceptual...
While there is growing interest among WPAs in adopting contract grading, the contract grading literature is primarily focused on individual classes and teachers and offers little guidance regarding programmatic adoption. In this article, we draw on an ecological framework to discuss disruptions caused by the spread of contract grading throughout th...
Reconstructing Response to Student Writing reports the results of a national study of response in higher education in the U.S., including teacher response, peer response, and student self-assessment.
URL: https://compositionforum.com/issue/50/responding-transfer.php
In this article, I present the results of a national study of response to student writing and argue for an approach to response I call Responding for Transfer (RFT). My corpus includes peer and teacher responses to 1,054 rough and final drafts of student writing from across the cur...
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Very like a whale: The assessment of writing programs Edward M. White, Norbert Elliot, and Irvin Peckham (2015) ISBN-13: 978-0-87421-985-2. Pp. 202.
Assessing and improving student writing in college Barbara E. Walvoord (2014) ISBN-13: 978-1-118-55736-5. Pp. xiii + 119.
Building on Porter et al.'s call for institutional theorizing and critique at the system level, in this article I argue that Critical Systems Thinking (CST) is a useful methodology to understand, critique, and transform campus writing programs. CST focuses on changing the structures and ideologies of an entire system through locating points of leve...
In this essay I present the results of a national study of over 2, 000 writing assignments from college courses across disciplines. Drawing on James Britton's multidimensional discourse taxonomy and recent work in genre studies, I analyze the rhetorical features and genres of the assignments and consider the significance of my findings through the...
