Activities that Low-stakes writing activities provide students with opportunities to experiment and practice with ideas, form, and style without the pressure associated with correctness. The term “low-stakes” represents the level of expectation that a student and instructor bring to a particular assignment, meaning that low-stakes writing should count very little (if at all) toward the student’s final gradeThese are a type of FORMATIVE assignment because they comprise the building blocks of high-stakes assignments, while HIGH-STAKES WRITING is presumably graded and thus has quantitative consequences.treated as SUMMATIVE. Examples of low-stakes writing include journalsjournaling, reflective responsesreflecting, creative drafting, and free-writing. Some scholars argue that Generally, the more frequently students engage in low-stakes writing, the more confidence and expertise they will apply to formal, high-stakes assignments.