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The Interactions between Emotion, Cognition, and Action in the Activity of Assessing Undergraduates ’ Written Work

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Tutors are important members of the teaching staff in universities. Nevertheless, in the area of teacher cognition studies, the beliefs and practices university tutors draw upon when assessing students’ written work have rarely been explored. Issues and theoretical perspectives relating to the assessment of undergraduates’ written work are more researched in the domains of applied linguistics and composition studies.

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Li, J. (2016). The Interactions between Emotion, Cognition, and Action in the Activity of Assessing Undergraduates ’ Written Work. In: Gedera, D.S.P., Williams, P.J. (eds) Activity Theory in Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-387-2_7

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