The Third Edition of Introduction to Academic Writing, by Alice Oshima and Ann Hogue, continues in the tradition of helping students to master the standard organizational patterns of the paragraph and the basic concepts of essay writing. The text's time-proven approach integrates the study of rhetorical patterns and the writing process with extensive practice in sentence structure and mechanics…
While enjoying popularity, assessment is still regarded as a misunderstood term in current educational practice (Bachman 1990; Brown 2004). With a paradigm shift in language assessment from psychometrics to educational assessment, from a testing culture to an assessment culture (Gipps 1994), the field has recently moved into a new direction. In Assessment in the Language Classroom: Teachers Sup…