LAC distributes handout with suggested timeline and a preliminary grading checklist for the final project. LAC grades submissions, requiring failing students to revise and resubmit by e-mail. LAC holds lecture workshop geared to solving problems students encountered. Students write assignment, submit on paper. LAC evaluates assignment.
Professor returns assignment to student.
This revised writing assignment plan will require a little more grading time, but the final evaluation in step 7 should go smoothly enough to recover much of the time spent in steps 2 and 4. The following revised assignment designs, based on the model given in Fig. 1, are sequenced assignments designed to take advantage of intervention points at key stages of the students' composition process. The first version, given in Fig. 7, requires very little additional effort on behalf of the professor, and only slightly more work from the writing staff member. The writing instructor can adapt existing handouts or create a new one for step 2.