Source for Writing Assessment Best Practices

Dear Colleagues,

Can anyone point me to an easy-to-engage print or web source they've had success using to introduce people from outside R&C to best practices for writing assessment? I'm currently working with our Core Curriculum Director, a chemist, on a writing assessment plan, and this work so far has taken the form of catching her up on assessment practices in our field and how writing assessment differs from other assessments. I've shared chapters from important texts in our field (*A Guide to College Writing Assessment; Assigning, Responding, Evaluating*; etc.). Now I've come to the conclusion that a nuts and bolts article would really center our conversations. What's the best source (that's not a full book) for talking writing assessment to those who don't have a background in writing pedagogy?

Thanks, Matt

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Barbara Walvoord's Assessment Clear and Simple is a good book for introducing non R&C folks to writing assessment best practices. Walvoord has a newer book, Assessing and Improving Student Writing in College, that would also be good for your purposes. I just did a review of this book and one of the books that's already been mentioned, Very Like a Whale, and I recommend them both.

 Cheers, Dan