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Holt, Reinholt, and Winston
Reading Book Online and Online Essay Scorer)
http://my.hrw.com
Each student has already registered and they have their individual User ID and password.
Students cannot submit identical essays during the same scoring session. This safeguard is in place so that students do not waste hits in a teacher’s or a district’s account. Students can, however, submit as many revisions of their essays as they desire. Revised essays are considered brand-new submissions and are evaluated by our system without regard to previous scores.
Holt Online Essay Scoring has several types of prewriting activities and tips for revision. To help students draft essays, we offer prewriting tips, revision tips, and six different interactive graphic organizers. After submitting an essay, a student also has access to writing activities specifically designed for writers at his or her performance level. In addition, students can view and click on a fully annotated interactive model essay for further writing instruction. All of these features are in addition to the holistic and analytic feedback displayed for each essay.
Students receive several types of feedback on their essays, including a holistic score and an analytic assessment in each of five different writing traits: content and development; focus and organization; effective sentences; word choice; and grammar, usage, and mechanics. Holt Online Essay Scoring also provides level-specific writing activities to help students revise their writing, interactive model essays for each writing prompt, and special advisories to alert teachers and students to highly unusual writing styles.
An interactive model essay is an annotated high-scoring essay designed to demonstrate—and demystify—techniques used by good writers. Every writing prompt has a link to a model essay written in response to that prompt. The models offer clickable headings that highlight thesis statements, conclusions, topic sentences, and other key parts of the essay. Each heading expands into an instructive annotation that discusses the writer’s technique and suggests how students might apply the technique to their own writing. In this way, the model essay not only demonstrates good writing but also shows students how to put effective writing approaches into action.
Many students choose to compose their essays in a word-processing program and then copy and paste them into the Holt Online Essay Scoring interface.
An essay under 100 words or over 1,200 words will receive an advisory from our system. For essays falling within those boundaries, length is not a criterion for essay scoring. However, longer responses have more opportunity to demonstrate development of ideas, elaboration, careful word choice, and so on. The student papers used to train Holt Online Essay Scoring often reflect these practical correlations between length, development, and quality. In this way, length can indirectly influence the way an essay is scored because many of the better training papers are well developed and therefore longer.
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Prentice Hall Online Essay Scorer (English Book)
1) Access your Internet browser and enter the below website:
http://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com
2) Click on your class period.
3) Enter your ‘User ID’ (First initial and last name-Example: gwhittington )
4) Password: First and last initials & last four digits of your SS# (Example: gw1234 )
***Note: User name and password are all lower case (case sensitive)
5) Click Login