Writing Performance Score

A Writing Performance Score is a linguistic performance score by a linguistic agent (a writer) on a writing performance measure (for some writing task).

• AKA: Writing Skill.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) include a Spelling Skill.
• Example(s):
  • a Essay Writing Ability.
  • a Slideshow Creation Ability (for slideshow text).
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Reading Capability.
  • Speaking Capability.
• See: Writing Act, Linguistic Performance, Essay, Storytelling.

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References

2015

• http://chroniclevitae.com/news/1073-the-importance-of-writing-skills-in-tech-related-fields
  • QUOTE: I taught my own writing course. Its theme was medicine, so a lot of pre-med majors signed up. Since it was an intensive summer course, writing assignments were due at the end of each week. Perhaps unsurprisingly, students complained about that, sometimes vociferously. “We’re all science majors,” one student lamented, “so we don’t really need to know how to write.”

2002

• (Hughes, 2002) ⇒ Arthur Hughes. (2002). “Testing for Language Teachers. 2nd edition". Cambridge University Press.

1985

• (White, 1985) ⇒ Edward M. White. (1985). “Teaching and Assessing Writing: Recent Advances in Understanding, Evaluating, and Improving Student Performance." Jossey-Bass Publishers.

1966

• (Godshalk et al., 1966) ⇒ Fred I. Godshalk, Frances Swineford, and William E. Coffman. (1966). “The Measurement of Writing Ability.” In: Psychology in the Schools, 4(1).

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