WriteForward - project website launched

How do adults learn to write? How can assessment help their writing skills develop? How can English instructors use writing assessments as learning tools?

Those are a few of the questions we are asking as part of the new adult writing assessment initiative WriteForward. Over the course of the next couple of years we will be researching writing – from both instruction and assessment perspectives – and creating a new informal writing assessment resource for adults. This is the follow up and companion to ReadForward. This month we launched a project website which will serve as a hub for information on WriteForward: writeforward.ca. This will include reflections on the research we read, examples and explanations of the development of the WriteForward resource, and details about how other literacy practitioners can get involved along the way. We already know that research on writing and assessment for adult learners is rather limited, and we look forward to working with and adding to what is known.

Interested in more details of the project? See the Project Overview page. Want to get involved? See the Practitioner Involvement page.

You can also follow us on Twitter: @WriteForward.