How did UWAC arrive at the page counts in the suggested workload?
For comparison, UW20 requires about 30 finished pages, each of which is revised at least once if not twice. With about 15 students in class, that’s at least 900 pages of grading. UWAC believes it’s fair to require at least half of this “page-load” in WID courses whose main purpose wouldn’t otherwise involve writing (think science course), or at least 450 pages. Thus, for a class size of 15, with 5 unrevised pages, 10 pages worked through a first revision and 5 pages through a second one, that’s about 30 pages per student, or a total of 450 pages. For courses that have traditionally required writing (think history course), a page-load of 20-25 is probably more appropriate.
