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6+1 Trait Writing > Create your own rubric. Effectively assessing the skills of students when it comes to business writing compositions will help ease the burden. Assessing and Enhancing the Basic Writing Skills of Marketing Students. This course is particularly aimed at the first-year students of Management of Tourism. & Anderson, E.S. From the results of the study, we were able to examine whether bilingual programs help students improve their English writing skills as well as to compare the results obtained by bilingual schools in Castilla-La Mancha with those developed in other Spanish, or even European, regions. appropriately which can convey the thought of writer clearly to the reader. The authors tested the method with a pretest and posttest design and found that when students were held accountable for improvement (with 5% of the course grade dependent on improvement), there was a significant increase in students' ability to edit. Finally, the benefits and drawbacks of assessing students formal writing skills are discussed. Business Communication Quarterly, 67(4), 443-454. endstream
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