What do teachers and students expect in assessing writing?

Talking about writing is difficult for me to think of a way of assessment different to correct grammatical structures, punctuation and connection between the ideas in a passage written by the student. Well, that was the first idea I had before I read the chapter. But, what is the goal of assessing writing? I would have to say that it depends on what you want to evaluate and this just can be known once the purposes and objectives of the assessment are established concretely.

Assessing writing is a production skill which requires all the knowledge we have of our foreign or even native language to perform correctly. It is noticeable that students don't like much writing and this reluctancy increases the problems to improve this skill. In my opinion, the importance of motivation and  the creation of dynamic activities to increase writing practice will give forceful results. Of course, we as teachers will have the task to achieve this change of perspective in our students.

Once the students are motivated they will expect to write correctly in order to express their ideas. Here, this chapter is really useful, because the aspiration of professors and students is to write perfectly. So, what the students expect is to receive detailed feedback in their compositions and learn specific strategies to improve their written style.

We need to be aware of the role we are playing in our students learning process. The importance of establishing precise goal in writing assessment will influence how significant and effective is our teaching and more important, the student's process.