Critical Evaluation of Two Articles that Describe the Inconsistencies in Rater Behaviors

In reviewing this article, this writer was able critique the study and the suitability that it can possess if applied to actual practice. An important factor on whether a study can be considered valuable is if it is transferable in other situation, that is, a study's results should also be reflective if duplicated on other samples (Polit & Beck, 2006). Thus, the statistical power, internal and external validity are important to observe and note (Polit & Beck). If this writer were to carry out this study, it would have to be reflective of how the researcher performed it originality.

After they submitted the essay, teacher revises the essay, evaluate according to rubric, gives written feedback and students are asked to write second draft. Therefore, it makes the task a formative test. Because they are expected to write second and final drafts, this task can be considered as a process assessment. This task provides the opportunity to observe the development of students. In addition, the task has objective testing features. As the task has a rubric, which guides the students how they have to write and how their papers are scored. Moreover, our aim to give that homework is not compare the students to one another but to see whether they accomplish to write a successful essay regarding the rubric one by one. We try to have information about what the student can actually do in the language. Tests that are designed to provide this kind of information directly are said to be criterion-referenced (Hughes, 2003, p. 20). The course name is Advanced Reading and Writing Skills and the task is directly measure what the course aims. As Hughes (2003, p. 17) states that Testing is said to be direct when it requires the candidate to perform precisely the skill that we wish to

Lastly, self-evaluation is a key component to writing an effective essay. Even though I was able to have student feedback for my essays; self-evaluation is important for me to be able to determine my strengths and weaknesses in my writing. After composing each essay I was required to compose a self-evaluation. The evaluations describe what I consider the strong points in the essay, and were I felt I still needed to

When the immigrant’s native language is not one of the general population, certain difficulties arise. For immigrants to be functional in society, it is highly important for them find a way to communicate with the culture around them. One way of doing this is learning the language of those in the surrounding culture. If immigrants decide to not go through the trouble of learning a new language, they often find that when they apply for jobs employers are, “discouraged by the fact that [they know] hardly a word of English” (Fox

Throughout the seven weeks that I have taken this writing composition course, I have developed skills to help me improve my own writing. Using the writing process is one of the main focuses in the course. The writing process helps writers develop and revise their essay as they work their way up to creating the final draft that can be presented. Although there are many areas in my own writing where I can get better, I have found that my writing has improved in many ways while practicing using the writing process.

Throughout the school year of 2015-2016 at the Founders Academy, I have wrote numerous essays, with generally positive results. Several of the essays exceeded expectations, while others reached expectations to a modest extent, but all of the essays were supported by the writing skills that I had learned that year, regardless of my strengths or weaknesses with these skills. These techniques vary extensively, from comparing and contrasting ideas in a text to editing and revising essays for quality results, which is proven in my writing portfolio.

My writing grades vary widely, because I do not consistently dedicate the same amount of time to read each article. I finish the annotation and writing at the same day, then later edit it if I have time at the end of the week after I had sometime to think about it. If I put writing it

In my English 1010 class, I have learned to do a number of things through writing essays. I have written a Literacy Narrative, a Discourse Community Analysis, and a Writing Research essay. Firstly, I have learned to identify how an author’s purpose, audience, genre, and context determine effective writing. The purpose of the literacy narrative was to help me understand myself better as a writer (Jones 1). My teacher was the intended audience of the narrative. The genre of the narrative was non-fiction because it was about my experience as a writer. The context of writing made my writing more interesting and more effective. All those things make effective writing because you have to know what you need to write about and who is receiving your writing. I displayed these skills by going into detail of my experiences with reading and writing through my life. In the narrative I shared how fun and exciting it was when my second grade class got the opportunity to write a book, A Book of Future Astronauts (Writing is Good).

Initially, I was not confident having my writing assessed by an online tool, as I was sure there would be numerous errors. Surprisingly, however, I received a lot of positive feedback. Firstly, Paper Rater (2014) found no mistakes in my spelling, grammar or punctuation; my sentences were all an appropriate length, and the use of transitional phrases made my writing flow nicely. Additionally, while reading Grellier and Goerke (2014), I realised I had used simple, direct language in my wiritng and avoided using clichés or redundant phrases. Finally, Writer’s Diet gave me an overall diagnosis of ‘fit and trim’, with a lean use of nouns, prepositions and words like it, this, that and there. These results were, pleasing; however, there were

Using frequently over used words can corrupt even the best essay. I received a grade of C overall. I was quite disappointed in myself and my performance as I know I have the ability to do better. There were four places that should have had commas

When I first heard the topic of my writing assignment, I was really surprised. I’ve never been asked to write about reflecting on or evaluating my writing process before entering this university. Although my homeland is in Thailand and the way of teaching differs greatly from Korea, there are some common aspects that affected my writing process. In addition, the knowing what is right and wrong about the process of writing is fundamental to create a finalized paper.

One of the areas in which we must all strive to improve to the best of our abilities is the potential to effectively articulate thoughts and ideas into our writing pieces. Improving my writing capability has been one of the most gratifying accomplishment because I have always been one to feel insecure about my assets as a writer. This insecurity spawns from self-awareness and knowing that writing can place you in a vulnerable state, as you allow others to perceive you personal notions and mental process. Some the most intimidating experience as a writer was having to write three essays within a short period of time because this type of task can demonstrate one’s genuine ability to both write coherently and rapidly. Due to these timed write,

On October 5, 2017, I wrote an essay titled “Argumentative College Essay.” On this essay, my Paper Rater score was 84. This is about a B. I got this score because of my word choice, style, and sentence length. First of all, my word choice score was a 3.79 (“lower is better”). I earned this score for word choice due to the quality and quantity of my words, and cliches. Second of all, my style was actually very good. My score was a 106

Professors might rate Essay B higher than Essay A because of the writer’s thinking process. The writer of Essay B saw creativity as a problem and kept working the problem by exploring the strengths and weaknesses, the writer used alternative

Well-designed evaluation questions are beneficial to data collection and analysis. Evaluation findings must be shared with other participants, as well as outside