Incorporating Performance Reviews into the Business Writing Classroom

Abstract

Some instructors undervalue or ignore such short assignments as peer cri tiques, progress memos, and practice documents when they calculate final grades, while others over-emphasize these documents, assigning each a critique and grade, which results in more work for them and re-emphasizes the impor tance of the grade to the student. One strategy for fairly assessing these docu ments is to incorporate them in a performance review at the middle and end of the course. Such a review also helps prepare studerus for the evaluation process they will face and use in the workplace.