Responding to and Assessing Student Writing by Anson

This was a crucial article, I believe, for those universities that are moving to online teaching and writing. How *do* you assess writing done online? The hyperlinks would be especially problematic for me, especially since we're so used to teaching citation and MLA (which I don't always agree with, because of its limitations outside of academia). I think teaching to write online is more beneficial for students, especially those who are contemplating a communications career, simply because it would be more beneficial for them to learn the implications of hyperlinks and adding Web pages to their thoughts than it does to learn paranthetical citation -- again, only useful if you are planning an academic career.

I think this article speaks much of academia's need to remember that most of our students will work outside of the university when they graduate, and so our classes should reflect their realistic experiences in communication as such. It was interesting to note that the professors doing the assessment of different types of writing naturally gravitated toward the written work, assessing it first over the online writing, simply because of their comfort level. It shows that composition has a long way to go in order to respond to what types of writing students will do after their university work is done.