Rethinking Writing Rubrics with Maja Wilson

It is important to grade the progress a student makes and to make sure they are understanding and developing complete thoughts and the fundamentals to ensure proper communication.
However, its a process to achieving this in writing, and its the process of the progress that should count. This is a great book.

I find that writing rubrics offer objective, formulaic, short hand annotations. They register grammar, punctuation, or even rhetorical devices, but they fail to instruct the student writer in the writing process.

Richard Marius claims that we each have our own writing process. It's a messy business. But once a student discovers their process, they become engaged writers and begin to think critically about their writing and their topic. Engaaged writers produce interesting writing.

I don't agree with Ms. Wilson. Writing skills can be graded objectively. Even writing with texture (aka rhetorical devices) can be graded. Grading someone's thoughts is not our job.
I'd be curious to read her book.