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Nebraska Department of Education, 2016
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Practice Guide, "Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively," offers educators three specific, evidence-based recommendations that address the challenges of teaching students in grades 6-12 to write effectively. This summary focuses on the third of the three recommendations: Use assessments of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Writing Strategies
Beck, Sarah – Teachers College Press, 2018
The think-aloud approach to classroom writing assessment is designed to expand teachers' perspectives on adolescent students as writers and help them integrate instruction and assessment in a timely way. Emphasizing learning over evaluation, it is especially well-suited to revealing students' strengths and helping them overcome common challenges…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Skill Analysis, Writing Skills, Writing Evaluation
Allen, Laura K.; Snow, Erica L.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2016
A commonly held belief among educators, researchers, and students is that high-quality texts are easier to read than low-quality texts, as they contain more engaging narrative and story-like elements. Interestingly, these assumptions have typically failed to be supported by the literature on writing. Previous research suggests that higher quality…
Descriptors: Role, Writing (Composition), Natural Language Processing, Hypothesis Testing
Bahls, Patrick – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2012
The book introduces readers in the often-overlooked math-related fields to the ideas of writing-to-learn (WTL) and writing in the disciplines (WID). It offers a guide to the pedagogy of writing in the mathematical sciences, and gives theoretically grounded means by which writing can be used to help undergraduate students to understand mathematical…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Curriculum, Mathematical Concepts, College Faculty
Yancey, Kathleen Blake – Principal Leadership, 2009
People are writing as never before--in blogs and text messages and on MySpace and Facebook and Twitter. Teenagers do a good deal of this writing, and in some composing environments--for example, the text-messaging space of a cell phone--they are ahead of adults in their invention of new writing practices and new genres. At the same time, teenagers…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Writing Evaluation
Grant, Janet E.; Espeland, Pamela, Ed. – 1995
Encouraging adolescents to envision themselves as writers, this book provides 24 step-by-step exercises to help them discover their writing style, explore new types of writing, experiment with genres, and evaluate their own work. The book also provides pragmatic information about the day-to-day realities of becoming a writer: finding the right…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Publishing Industry, Secondary Education, Student Publications
Bolling, Anna L. – 1993
Combining the journal writing process with the concepts of collaboration can produce more focused writing and learning. Through the channel of collaborative situations, such as group journal writing, teachers can capitalize on the benefits achieved from the collaborative process and cultivate thinking and writing skills. A group journal writing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Collaborative Writing, Higher Education, Journal Writing
Moore, Cindy, Ed.; O'Neill, Peggy, Ed. – 2002
Designed for a broad audience in education, this book offers a realistic look at the wide range of teaching contexts and how writing teachers adapt their pedagogy to their particular circumstances. Specific topics highlighted by individual essays include: basic writing, service learning, online writing, revision, research writing, proofreading and…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, High Schools, Higher Education, Teacher Response
Forney, Melissa – 1996
Designed to help teachers empower students to become thinkers, writers, and especially authors, this book helps teachers develop a writer's mindset in grades 2-6 students. It supports and guides teachers from the week before school through the spring Young Author's Conference that recognizes writing achievement. Chapters in the book are: (1) Kids…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Student Empowerment
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Cannon, Robert E. – American Biology Teacher, 1990
Described are the experiences of one teacher with the teaching of writing in college level microbiology, virology, and immunology courses. Assignments, methods, evaluation, and student responses are discussed. (CW)
Descriptors: Biology, College Science, Content Area Writing, Higher Education
Tubman, Alan – 1993
Developed as a teaching aid for a General Educational Development (GED) preparation class, this essay writing guide gives students the tools they need to develop and organize ideas for writing an essay with confidence. By following a sequential procedure in this very structured approach, students learn to turn out a well-organized essay. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Essays, High School Equivalency Programs, Writing Assignments
Speck, Bruce W. – 2000
This book offers detailed and complex guidance, and the necessary techniques, for grading college students' writing. It examines why it is important to integrate grading into the writing process; the need for effective writing assignments; ensuring fair professorial judgments; promoting student learning; helping students learn how to respond…
Descriptors: College Students, Grading, Higher Education, Student Evaluation
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Bering, C. Larry – Biochemical Education, 1991
Discusses the weaknesses and strengths of both term papers and short reports in fulfilling the supplementary goals of an introductory biochemistry course, namely, the development of written communication skills in concert with the presentation of course materials. (JJK)
Descriptors: Biochemistry, College Science, Content Area Writing, Evaluation Methods
Minnesota State Dept. of Children, Families, and Learning, St. Paul. – 1998
Developed by classroom teachers during the development phase of Minnesota's Graduation Standards, this performance package is made up of locally designed assignments that, taken together, show whether a student has learned and can apply the knowledge and skills related to writing in the English language for a variety of technical purposes,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Class Activities, High Schools, Letters (Correspondence)
White, Edward M. – 1994
Reorganized and revised, the second edition of this book provides the latest theoretical and practical materials that instructors across the disciplines will need to help students build strong writing skills. It offers suggestions about how to develop effective writing assignments; and it evaluates various methods of assessing student writing,…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Reading Writing Relationship, Student Evaluation
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