評估寫作是一種國際性的參考期刊，它提供了一個關于評估書面語言的觀點、研究和實踐的論壇。評估寫作發表文章、書評、會議報告和學術交流，涉及各種寫作評估，包括傳統的（直接的和標準化的）寫作測試、替代性績效評估（如組合）、工作場所抽樣和課堂評估。該期刊關注寫作評估過程的各個階段，包括需求評估、評估創建、實施和驗證以及測試開發；其目的是將寫作評估的所有觀點作為過程、產品和政治（考生和評分者；測試開發人員和機構；教育行政部門；以及政治動機）。該期刊對寫作評價理論和實踐中關鍵問題的評論文章很感興趣。評估寫作包括國際主義，并試圖反映世界各地的教師、研究人員和寫作評估專家的擔憂，無論他們的語言背景如何。文章以英語發表，通常與英語寫作評估有關，但將考慮使用英語以外的其他語言進行寫作評估的英語文章。雖然評估寫作經常發表關于作文、跨課程寫作和TESOL（向其他語言使用者教授英語）領域的寫作評估的文章，但它歡迎在這些領域之外的專業和學術領域發表關于寫作評估的文章。該雜志的范圍很廣，涵蓋了各個年齡層、大規模（國際、國家和國家）以及課堂、教育和非教育機構環境、寫作和方案評估、寫作和批判性識字以及技術在寫作評估中的作用等領域的所有工作。通過這一學術交流，評估寫作有助于在所有上下文中評估寫作的優秀發展，并在這方面促進寫作的教學和欣賞。

Assessing Writing is a refereed international journal providing a forum for ideas, research and practice on the assessment of written language. Assessing Writing publishes articles, book reviews, conference reports, and academic exchanges concerning writing assessments of all kinds, including traditional ('direct' and standardised forms of) testing of writing, alternative performance assessments (such as portfolios), workplace sampling and classroom assessment. The journal focuses on all stages of the writing assessment process, including needs evaluation, assessment creation, implementation, and validation, and test development; it aims to value all perspectives on writing assessment as process, product and politics (test takers and raters; test developers and agencies; educational administrations; and political motivations). The journal is interested in review essays of key issues in the theory and practice of writing assessment.Assessing Writing embraces internationalism and will attempt to reflect the concerns of teachers, researchers and writing assessment specialists around the world, whatever their linguistic background. Articles are published in English and normally relate to the assessment of English language writing, but articles in English about the assessment of writing in languages other than English will be considered. While Assessing Writing frequently publishes articles about the assessment of writing in the fields of composition, writing across the curriculum, and TESOL (the teaching of English to speakers of other languages), it welcomes articles about the assessment of writing in professional and academic areas outside these fields.The scope of the journal is wide, and embraces all work in the field at all age levels, in large-scale (international, national and state) as well as classroom, educational and non-educational institutional contexts, writing and programme evaluation, writing and critical literacy, and the role of technology in the assessment of writing. Through this scholarly exchange, Assessing Writing contributes to the development of excellence in the assessment of writing in all contexts, and, in so doing, to the teaching and appreciation of writing.