"For professors concerned with how best to grade students' writing, this monograph will be a must. It is particularly helpful in its coverage of how to provide effective feedback on students' writing. It also should stimulate most readers to new insights about the relationship between grading student writing and the students' writing process." (Barbara Townsend, professor of education, University of Missouri-Columbia)

"This manuscript brings together the resources about grading writing into a form that not only supplies the bibliography of writing professionals, but also gives a connected overview for faculty members who are not English specialists. As someone who comes, fresh from eight years as director of a general education program, to this manuscript, I find its availability exciting." (David Sigsbee, interim director, University Honors Program, The University of Memphis)

"The report offers a sophisticated and informed discussion of the major issues in grading and responding, including grammar and mechanics as well as plagiarism." (Sam Dragga, professor of English, Texas Technical University)

"This monograph focuses on an increasingly important topic, the grading of student writing. Speck's manuscript points out that while the grading of student writing was once considered a rather simple process, and done almost reflexively, it is in fact an immensely complex problem, which teachers are only now beginning to confront." (Frances Zak, professor of Writing Programs/English, State University of New York at Stony Brook)