Sarah Faye is a lecturer in the UC Davis University Writing Program. She is a PhD student in Rhetoric and Technical Communication at the University of Texas Tech. Her research interests include contract grading and assessment, Disability Studies, and the history of technical communication.
Throughout your time in school, most of your classes have probably been graded. If you met certain criteria, you received an “A,” a “B,” a “C,” and so on. Maybe your school used numbers, grades, or GPA-style grading, but whatever the grades looked like, the mechanism was pretty similar. Your teachers probably used a combination of tests, quizzes, essays, presentations,...
