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Hochman, Judith C.; Vroom, Toni-Ann; Zoleo, Dina – American Educator, 2023
Writing can improve children's speaking, boost their reading comprehension, build their knowledge, and elevate their thinking. However a reason it may be hard to learn is that without explicit writing instruction, children often write the way they speak. From elementary through high school, many children answer questions with little elaboration.…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Thinking Skills, Communication Skills
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McKnight, Lucinda – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2023
The teaching of writing in secondary English subjects in Australia, as in other countries including England and the United States, has become increasingly formulaic. Pedagogies including direct instruction, modelling, scaffolding, and genre-based approaches involve the implementation of formulas for writing sentences, paragraphs, and entire…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Secondary Education, English Instruction
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Hughes, Melissa D.; Regan, Kelley S.; Evmenova, Anya – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2019
Written expression is often difficult for students with and without learning disabilities. Research-based strategies to support this essential skill include self-regulated learning strategies, technology, and tools for planning and writing. This article describes a multifaceted technology-based writing intervention with embedded self-regulated…
Descriptors: Self Management, Learning Strategies, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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McGee, Iain – English in Education, 2016
Teachers of writing have two options available to them when it comes to teaching paragraphing. There are, broadly speaking, either "laissez faire" approaches, or tightly prescriptivist ones. While the latter approaches have, at times, been challenged, they are entrenched in textbooks and testing rubrics, and are highly influential in…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Paragraph Composition, Writing Skills, Teaching Methods
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Vander Zee, Anton – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2017
The five-paragraph essay is a hard genre to love. Its inverted-triangle intro has enlightened us with too many "dawns" of some monolithic "man." It reduces arguments, which tend to be rather subtle creatures, to the confines of a single-sentence thesis. It confects arguments in bland triplicate structure, as if any claim could…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Academic Discourse
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Kathleen Dudden Rowlands – English Journal, 2016
The author, who teaches the English Methods class in the credential program, knew from entries in students' Writer's Reader's Notebooks (Rief) that they were struggling with the articles assigned about a five-paragraph essay. Following a discussion of form-first instruction and CCSS assessments, this article provides concrete suggestions for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, English Instruction
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Sowell, Jimalee – English Teaching Forum, 2019
The use of writing models with nonnative English speakers has received a certain amount of criticism--especially from teachers whose students copy models in their entirety or follow them too closely. The misuse of models has brought some teachers to the point where they believe that the best kind of pedagogy is to abandon writing models…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Literary Genres, Discourse Modes
Abdallah, Mahmoud M. S. – Online Submission, 2015
Writing is a very important skill that should be mastered properly by university students, especially pre-service language teachers (e.g. EFL student teachers). In order to present their ideas efficiently in the context of their academic study, they have to be trained well on how to write meaningful pieces (e.g. essays, academic reports,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Writing Instruction, Student Teachers
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DeLotto, Jeffrey – CEA Forum, 2011
I propose that we think about what a paragraph is by considering its "function," what it does in a piece of writing, whether in a popular novel, a newspaper article, an e-mail, a business report, or a lofty piece of literary criticism. We might think about a paragraph as a "rhetorical dwelling."
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Literary Criticism, Scholarship, Paragraph Composition
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Donovan, Carol A.; Smolkin, Laura B. – Reading Teacher, 2011
The greater emphasis on information books in elementary schools has led to an increased emphasis on informational writing as well. Although some have suggested utilizing mentor texts to engage children in informational writing, there has been little information about the developmental progression of children's ability to compose in this genre.…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Brannon, Lil; Courtney, Jennifer Pooler; Urbanski, Cynthia P.; Woodward, Shana V.; Reynolds, Jeanie Marklin; Iannone, Anthony E.; Haag, Karen D.; Mach, Karen; Manship, Lacy Arnold; Kendrick, Mary – English Journal, 2008
There is a seductive "commonsense" logic to two opinion pieces that have appeared over the last two years in the "Speaking My Mind" section of "English Journal": (1) Byung-In Seo's "Defending the Five-Paragraph Essay," which appeared in the November 2007 issue; and (2) Kerri Smith's "In Defense of the Five-Paragraph Essay," which appeared in March…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Logical Thinking, Writing Instruction, Essays
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Duncan, Mike – College English, 2007
For the last several years, composition scholarship has unfortunately neglected the paragraph. Theories about it, however, have a rich history. Eventually, it involved conflicts between prescriptivists and descriptivists, as well as between members of the latter group and the branch of descriptivism called functionalism. In this article, the…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Paragraph Composition, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition)
Terrill, Robert E. – Executive Educator, 1983
Working with teachers, parents, and the school board, the East Hampton (Connecticut) Public Schools developed a program that improved students' paragraph writing within one year. The program involved setting objectives on paragraph construction and use of supporting information, giving teachers inservice training, specifying students' problems,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Paragraph Composition, Paragraphs
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Kent, Thomas L. – Journal of Business Communication, 1984
Presents a strategy for teaching paragraph cohesion based on the "given-new contract" theory of information transfer that explains why and how to construct unified and cohesive paragraphs. (PD)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Communication (Thought Transfer), Higher Education, Paragraph Composition
Lieber, Paula E. – 1981
Superordinates in Halliday and Hasan's analysis of cohesion are lexical items which refer to preceding terms, ideas, or actions, or to whole stretches of discourse, by naming a more inclusive category or class within which the antecedent is included. In written texts the interrelationships between superordinates and more specific terms, or…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), English (Second Language), Expository Writing
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