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Amy Stornaiuolo; Clara Abbott; Kathy Walsh – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
This discussion introduces a heuristic to guide writing instruction with adolescents and young adults. Our framework, called "Open World Writing," consists of six writing territories (vision, material, design, voice, flow, polish) that provide focus and clarity for writing and educators working across academic and creative writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Heuristics, Adolescents
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Beck, Sarah W.; Jones, Karis; Storm, Scott; Smith, Holly – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
With dialogic writing assessment, teachers can scaffold students' writing processes in ways that are flexible and responsive to students' individual needs. Examples of teachers using this conference-based method of classroom writing assessment illustrate how to practice assessment that is dynamic and relational rather than static and standardized,…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Writing Processes, Teaching Methods, Student Evaluation
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Meixner, Emily; Peel, Anne; Hendrickson, Rachel; Szczeck, Lynn; Bousum, Kelly – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2019
In this article, the authors, two teacher educators and three high school teachers, examine the impact of a professional development seminar held in spring 2017. In that seminar, participants read and composed brief autobiographical sketches in a variety of media and learned a new lexicon for multimodal close reading, composition, and design.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Autobiographies, Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes
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VanDerHeide, Jennifer; Juzwik, Mary M. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2018
How can social change become possible when secondary teachers approach argument as participation in ongoing conversations? The authors illustrate how--through writing, speaking, and reading to develop a letter to their principal arguing for a school policy change--secondary students participated in multiple conversational spheres across time and…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Interpersonal Communication, Oral Language, Written Language
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Zenkov, Kristien; Taylor, Laurel; Harmon, James – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2016
In this article, the authors report on what began as a series of rather desperate English teacher acts: The authors implemented a youth participatory action research photovoice research project with adolescents in a range of diverse communities that were united by young adults' detachment from their writing processes and products and from their…
Descriptors: Adolescents, English Instruction, Participatory Research, Action Research
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Graff, Nelson – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
This article describes an assignment piloted in spring of 2008 called the Rhetorical Analysis Project, which required students to analyze three different texts addressing a common issue, compose an argument about the representation of that issue as illustrated by those texts, and revise that argument to match a rhetorical model they chose from…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Transfer of Training, Rhetorical Criticism, High Stakes Tests
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Sweeny, Sheelah M. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
Writing, for adolescents who live in an age of digital communication, has taken on new importance and plays a prominent role in the way they socialize, share information, and structure communication. New literacies expand the literacy realm by considering the skills needed to function using media other than the printed page. Internet resources can…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Literacy Education, Internet, Writing Instruction
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Zenkov, Kristien; Harmon, James – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2009
In response to a thirty-year pattern of elevated high school dropout rates and a multi-generational disengagement from traditional school-based literacy practices among urban community members, the project on which this article reports asked a group of city students to document photographically what they perceived as the purposes of, impediments…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Language Arts, Dropout Rate, Writing Processes
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Medina, Adriana L. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2006
In order for students to write like authors they need to read like writers. This requires direct instruction in attending to the writing craft through the use of quality adolescent literature and engagement in reading and writing. This article focuses on writing catchy introductions. The author offers the lesson objective and a teacher script…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes
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Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve; Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Valdes, Rosa – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2004
The process approach to writing instruction emphasizes a cycle of revision during which students draft, edit, revise, and redraft their work. In this approach, feedback from teachers or peers and the opportunity to revise written work based on this feedback are considered to be keys to students' development as writers, and the role of instruction…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Revision (Written Composition), Feedback (Response), Writing Processes