There are currently 3732 edited collections listed in the CompPile database.
1001. Dressel, Paul L. (Ed.); and associates. (1961). Evaluation in higher education. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press.
Annotation: In 1958, Paul Dressel, Director of Education Services at Michigan State University, had published Evaluation in the Basic College at Michigan State University (Harper and Brothers). The volume covered the university's general assessment efforts (managed by a Board of Examiners) that had begun in 1944 under a central administrative unit (the Basic College). In 1961, Dressel issued this second volume, Evaluation in Higher Education. Here Dressel and his colleagues provide what could be considered the first institutional research handbook. Viewing evaluation as an "integrative element" in postsecondary education, Dressel stressed that evaluation was both a means and an end to improve quality of instruction (p. 24). Taking Michigan State College as a case study in institutional research, Dressel and his colleagues construct chapters on the nature and role of evaluation; specific evaluation problems in the social sciences, natural sciences, the humanities, and communication; the relationship between grades and examinations; and the role of institutional research in planning and policy development. An appendix provides a discussion of technical considerations in measurement. While limited-response forms of assessment are discussed throughout the volume, notable is attention to writing in the disciplines. The chapter called "Evaluation of Communication Skills" (pp. 192-226) is written by Osmond E. Palmer, who was directing the Examinations Board for the Basic College at the university (see annotation for Palmer, 1961). Palmer had worked with Paul Diederich and his system of holistic scoring at the University of Chicago (see Diederich, 1946, above), and at the time that Dressel's handbook appeared was influencing the shape of the Educational Testing Service's validation the College Board's English Composition Test , which eventually led to Godshalk, Swineford, and Coffman, 1966 (see Haswell & Elliot, 2019, chapter 6). The overall conceptual system described in Dressel's handbook is the most informed and best presented in the handbooks produced from 1924 to 1985. In many ways, the system supports what may accurately be understood as the first writing-in-the-disciplines handbook in the US. NbtE [Rich Haswell & Norbert Elliot, Holistic Scoring of Written Discourse to 1985, WPA-CompPile Research Bibliographies, No. 27]
Keywords: program assessment, WID, Michigan State University, Basic College, evaluation, measurement, Osmond E. Palmer, essay-scoring, analytic, ranking, sample-matching, holistic, University of Chicago, Diederich, CEEB,
1002. Dressel, Paul Leroy (Ed.). (1958). Evaluation in the Basic College at Michigan State University. New York: Harper and Brothers.
Keywords: gen-ed, Michigan State University, transfer-student, advance-credit, assessment, verbal, grading, data, predictive, correlation, direct, interrater-reliability
1003. Dressler, Wolfgang U. (Ed.). (1978). Current trends in text linguistics (Research in text theory, Vol. 2). Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter.
Keywords: text-analysis, text linguistics, discourse-analysis, trend
1004. Drucker, Susan J.; Gary Gumpert (Eds.). (2005). Real law at virtual space: Communication regulation in cyberspace. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Keywords: legality, regulation, internet, digital, communication-studies, virtual space
1005. du Gay, Paul (Ed.). (1997). Production of culture/cultures of production. London: Sage; The Open University.
Keywords: cultural, cultural-studies, production, workplace
1006. Dubinsky, James M.; J. Harrison Carpenter (Eds.). (2004). Civic engagement and technical communication. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum (pp. Technical Communication Quarterly 13.3).
Keywords: technical-communication, civic
1007. Dudley-Evans, Toney (Ed.). (1987). Genre analysis and ESP (ELR journal, Vol. 1). Birmingham, England: University of Birmingham, Centre for English Language Studies.
Keywords: ESL, genre-analysis
1008. Dudley-Marling, Curt; Carole Edelsky (Eds.). (2001). The fate of progressive language policies and practices. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.
Keywords: school, political, progressive, language policy
1009. Duffy, John; Julie Nelson Christoph; Eli Goldblatt; Nelson Graff; Rebecca S. Nowacek; Bryan Trabold (eds.). (2013). Literacy, economy, and power: Writing and research after ""Literacy in American Lives. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
Keywords: literacy, USA, economy, power, Deborah Brandt, social, cultural
1010. Duffy, Thomas M.; Robert Waller (Ed.). (1985). Designing usable texts. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
Keywords: usability, text-design, technical-communication
1011. Duin, Ann Hill; Craig J. Hansen (Eds.). (1996). Nonacademic writing: Social theory and technology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Keywords: nonacademic, social, technology, social-theory, technical-communication, social
1012. Duke, Charles R. (Ed.). (1984). Writing exercises from Exercise exchange (Volume II). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.
Keywords: pedagogy, exercise, best-practices
1013. Duke, Charles R.; Rebecca Sanchez (Eds.). (2001). Assessing writing across the curriculum. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
Keywords: WAC, program-validation, school
1014. Duncan, James S.; David Ley (Eds.). (1993). Place/culture/representation. London; New York: Routledge.
Keywords: authorship, place, landscape, textuality, power, representation
1015. Duncan, James S.; Derek Gregory (Eds.). (1999). Writes of passage: Reading travel writing. London; New York: Routledge.
Keywords: travel-writing, 18th-20th-century
1017. Dunn, Francis M.; Thomas Cole (Eds.). (1992). Beginnings in classical literature. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Keywords: literature, classical-rhetoric
1018. Dunwoody, Sharon (Ed.). (2005). The evolution of key mass communication concepts: Honoring Jack M. McLeod. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Keywords: communication-studies, mass-communication, mass-media, terminology, history
1019. Duranti, Alessandro; Charles Goodwin (Eds.). (1992). Rethinking context: Language as an interactive phenomenon. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Keywords: contextualism, language, interactive
1020. Durgunoglu, Aydin; Ludo Verhoeven (Eds.). (1998). Literacy development in a multilingual context: Cross-cultural perspectives. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Keywords: developing, literacy, multilingual, acquisition, cross-cultural
1021. Duszak, Anna (Ed.). (1997). Culture and styles of academic discourse. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Keywords: academic, discourse, text-analysis, cultural, style, academic-discourse, style
1022. Duszak, Anna; Urszula Okulska (Eds.). (2004). Speaking from the margin: Global English from a European perspective. Frankfurt am Maim, Germany: Peter Lang.
Keywords: world-Englishes, globalization, Europe, marginality
1023. Dvorak, Kevin; Shanti Bruce (Eds.). (2008). Creative approaches to writing center work. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press .
Keywords: wcenter, pedagogy, administration, creativity, play, performative
1024. Dybokowski, Anne; Victoria Freeman; Daphne Marlatt; Barbara Pulling; Betsy Warland (Eds.). (1985). Proceedings from in the feminine: women and words/les femmes et les mots conference. Edmonton, Canada: Longspoon.
Keywords: women, political, Canada, bilingual
1025. Dyson, Anne Haas (Ed.). (1989). Collaboration through writing and reading: Exploring possibilities. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English; Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources Information Center [ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 311 450].
Keywords: collaboration, read-write
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