"Writing for a Better World" Keynote Address

What Does it Mean to Assess Writing for a Better World?

In this talk Dr. Inoue will engage us with the question of what it means to assess and grade college student writing for a better world. We'll focus not on people behaving badly or racist, but rather on the historical and structural ways that most academics judge and read language; teachers’ ways of assessing language; disciplines’ logics and ways with words; and most professions’ expectations of language use. Join us for this thought-provoking discussion about how higher education generally promotes literacy practices through assessment ecologies that are White supremacist, and defines an antiracist orientation toward our teaching and assessing.