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Horn, Susanna K. – NADE Digest, 2007
It has long been established that self-assessment and goal-setting are regular features of the writing process of experienced writers. It has also been demonstrated that students develop more power and control over their writing when they are encouraged to become their own evaluators. Therefore, to help beginning writers think and act more like…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Goal Orientation, Writing (Composition), Writing Strategies
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Collins, Kathleen M.; Collins, James L. – English Journal, 1996
Reviews an instructional strategy for remedial writers which consists of four steps: identifying a strategy worth teaching; introducing the strategy by modeling it; helping students to try it out with workshop-style teaching guidance; and then, helping students to work toward independent mastery. (TB)
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Techniques, Remedial Programs, Secondary Education
Todorovska, Viktorija – 1996
Stretch 107 is a version of English 107 (a first-year composition course for international students at Arizona State University), designed to provide those with low proficiency in English with various strategies for writing acceptable prose in English. Since it is a 2-semester course, Stretch 107 gives students more time to work on their…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Basic Writing, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
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Greenberg, Karen L. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1985
Supports the use of the applied linguistics technique of error analysis (i.e., charting and analyzing patterns in language errors) in developmental writing instruction. Argues that error enables teachers to diagnose the cognitive strategies and processes used by students in writing. Discusses teaching strategies and the approach's limitations.…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Developmental Studies Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged, Error Analysis (Language)