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Annual Assessment ReportAccess the annual program assessment survey below. If you have questions about the survey or the goals of assessment reporting, please contact provost@plu.edu.Annual Assessment Report Survey Questions or comments? Please contact the Office of the Provost (253)535-7126 or provost@plu.edu Return to Reporting and Review

Pacific Lutheran University is a community of scholars, a community of readers and writers. Reading informs the intellect and liberates the imagination. Writing pervades our academic lives as teachers and students, both as a way of communicating what we learn and as a means of shaping thoughts and ideas. All faculty members share the responsibility for improving the literacy of their students. Faculty in every department and school make writing an essential part of their courses and show

Writing Effective Thesis StatementsA good thesis statement can be the difference between making an argument about something, and simply re-stating what someone else has already said. In your thesis statement, you want to make a claim that you will continue to develop throughout the paper. It should represent your own ideas–perhaps in response to something someone else has said–but ultimately, it is your argument. As such, a good thesis statement should have 3 main traits. A good thesis: Can be

writing: a description, a comparison, etc. It is more realistic to imagine that a writer will utilize a variety of modes-description in conjunction with narration and persuasion-to achieve her or his aim.) Hand-in-hand with a sense of purpose is a sense of audience. If fact, real-life writing situations are often motivated first by the need to communicate with a specific group of people. Having a particular audience in mind when composing helps writers choose appropriate tone, style, and words, as

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50 Learning Assessment Techniques: A Quick Reference GuideSource: Elizabeth Barkley & Claire Major, Learning Assessment Techniques  (Jossey-Bass, 2016). These LAT’s are organized around the six categories of learning in Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning.Printable pdfLAT Quick Reference CategoryLATTechniqueBrief Description Foundational Knowledge1First Day FinalStudents take a non-graded test the first day of the term that consists of questions that are similar to the Final Exam, and then

norming assignments across multiple courses in a program. (TILT Higher Ed) Alternative Forms of Grading The following websites and articles offer alternatives for doing classroom-based assessment.  Breana Bayraktar “Specs Grading” Asao Inoue “Labor Based Grading Contract Resources” Jeffrey Schinske and Kimberly Tanner “Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently)” Jesse Stommel “How to Ungrade” National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) The National Institute for Learning Outcomes

Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA at PLU Tuesday, February 25, 2014 “The Writer’s Story,” 3:30PM, Garfield Book Company Reading, 7:00PM, Scandinavian Cultural Center, Anderson University Center Stan Sanvel Rubin is founding director of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at PLU. His third full-length collection, Hidden Sequel, won the Barrow Street Book Prize and was a Small Press Distribution bestseller. A fourth, There. Here., will be published in