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Johanna Schmertz – English Journal, 2016
This piece introduces methods -- textual interventions -- for teaching close reading through film literacy. Editing is the mechanism that creates meaning out of moving images. To unlock a film's visual "secrets," we must break the sequences of editing; move its hinges; reread and revise the cut.
Descriptors: Film Study, Multiple Literacies, Editing, Critical Reading

Couch, Lezlie Laws – English Journal, 1983
Uses personal experience with writing a newsletter to show how a newsletter assignment involves students in a wide variety of writing experiences, makes them aware of their audience, and shows them the need for good organizing and editing skills. (MM)
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Editing, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing