I just perused the draft Common Core Standards released today by the Common Core Standards Initiative, and found some of the language intriguing. As I was reading, I realized that I need to incorporate written assessment into more fields, particularly groupwork. I want to assign my students to formally critique group interactions next year. Here and more generally, I want to start mandating the use of certain technical terms in student writing. When writing about groupwork, for example, I might ask students to use the terms facilitator, norms, engagement, and silenced dialogue. This might be useful for helping students focus analytical writing around literary elements as well.