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Assessments
Ecostamps Assessments are a simple solution to two problems, one a necessity and the other a limitation.
Feedback is essential to the educational process. Apart from persistence,
few things are as important to a writer's development.
Providing it, especially on the part of editors, is a limitation,
specifically, finding the time to provide constructive feedback on, say, a couple
thousand submissions.
Ecostamps Assessments successfully tackle both of these issues by enabling editors,
with no more than a few clicks of a button,
to provide a substantive evaluation of a submission.
Absolute ratings are given on a number of standard or editor-defined criteria.
These ratings are also reported relative to the distribution
of ratings across submissions in the category.
Assessments also include a number of other customizable tools that enable editors
to create libraries of suggestions, rejection reasons, and customized letters to
facilitate communication
with authors.
While efficiency and ease-of-use are essential, we recognize that incentives
are also important. That's why each Assessment on an Enhanced submission earns the editor's
organization $1 to help defray operating
costs and pay writers for their work.
Quid pro quo. Virtuous circle. Win-win.
Reciprocal altruism.
Call it whatever you like. Ecostamps enables editors
and writers to work together to achieve their mutual goal of creating,
publishing, and perpetuating literature for this generation and the next.
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