Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Rubrics Save Time and Make Grading Criteria Visible," by Anna Leahy (@AMLeahy). It's the chapter she wrote in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Keywords: assessment, formative feedback, revision, rubric, summative feedback

Anna Leahy is the author of the nonfiction book Tumor and the poetry collections Aperture and Constituents of Matter. Her essays and poetry have appeared at The Atlantic, Crab Orchard Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, The Southern Review, The Pinch, and elsewhere, and her essays have won top awards from the Los Angeles Review, Ninth Letter, and Dogwood. She is the editor of Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom and What We Talk about When We Talk about Creative Writing and has contributed to a variety of other books and journals about teaching. She directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chapman University, where she edits the international Tab Journal and curates the Tabula Poetica reading series. See more at www.amleahy.com. (2020 bio)

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