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Philippakos, Zoi A. – Reading Teacher, 2018
Proficient writers spend substantial time planning for writing, and that planning begins with analyzing the writing task. They spend time considering the topic, the audience and its needs, and the genre and form of the writing. This rhetorical analysis helps them set goals, orient their attention, and get organized. Task analysis can also help…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Writing Assignments, Writing Processes, Writing Skills
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Sarah Levine; Johanna Franzel – English Journal, 2015
Teachers search for ways to make classroom writing relevant and "real world." This article makes a case for using radio as a framework for the teaching of writing. Using this framework enables students to write strong, specific, and effective pieces and draws the real world into the classroom with the use of smartphones and Web-based…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Radio, English Teachers
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Marquez, Loren – Across the Disciplines, 2015
Just as WAC pedagogy and writing studies both stress the ways that writing and communication practices can act as both heuristics and products of genre-based, discipline- specific knowledge, in much the same way, performance, too, can be used as a heuristic and as a product and should be more fully explored in WAC theory and pedagogy. This article…
Descriptors: Performance, Interdisciplinary Approach, Heuristics, Writing Across the Curriculum
McCarthey, Sarah J. – 1993
This paper uses two case studies to explore the risk and opportunities of writing from students' personal experiences. Anthony, a high-achieving, Hispanic fifth-grader, and Anita, a low-achieving, African-American sixth-grader, participated in a writing workshop in which students kept notebooks of their personal experiences and reflections. The…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Case Studies, Elementary School Students, Hispanic American Students
Freedman, Sarah Warshauer – 1994
As part of a larger project, a ninth-grade class participated in a year-long exchange of writing with students in an inner-city London classroom. The larger project involved 10 San Francisco Bay Area sixth- through ninth-grade classes exchanging writing with nine inner-city London classes and a Swedish class. Students and teachers in each of the…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries