Responding to topic sentences
One of my goals is to help students to write better essays. However, there is only so much class time and the students can only do so many sample essays in a year, so I look for alternatives to writing one-hour in-class essays. This assessment - what I call a topic sentence test - is a way to cover a breadth of material while still focusing on the development of skills relevant to the ERQ rubric. A shareable student...