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Saadet Korucu-Kis – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Although a number of studies examined the use of social networking sites (SNSs) in academic writing instruction, these studies mainly revolve around social media centered on microblogging features. Despite living in a visually dominated world, the potential of visual social media such as Instagram whereby the textual, the visual and the social can…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Visual Aids, Social Media
Pleasant Valley Community School District, IA. – 1982
The processes of prewriting, writing, revising, and proofreading are outlined in this four-page guide for writing center volunteers. Each section lists "things to remember" and provides ideas on "how to help students" when teaching these four stages of the writing process. (JW)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Guidelines, Prewriting, Revision (Written Composition)
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Hewins, Catherine P. – Foreign Language Annals, 1986
Presents techniques from Writing Across the Curriculum adapted to the foreign language classroom. Strategies for encouraging students to write more effectively in the foreign language are described. The strategies include assigning relevant topics, treating writing as a process, and responding to and evaluating student writing in a more…
Descriptors: French, Learning Motivation, Modern Languages, Prewriting
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Crealock, Carol – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1993
The nine-step grid strategy provides prompts in both structure and content areas to improve the narrative writing skills of students with learning disabilities. The steps include developing a story grid with characters, setting, action, emotion, and so on; planning and writing the story; and completing both cognitive and technical edits. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Models, Prewriting
Hanzelka, Richard; And Others – 1981
Suitable for grades K-6, the paper presents guidelines for evaluating various levels of writing ability. Also presented are a description of a four-phase writing process model and a list of components necessary for a good writing program. Characteristics of superior, typical, and weak writing are presented on a continuum according to the student's…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Guidelines, Models, Prewriting
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Collins, Norma Decker; Parkhurst, Lynette – Roeper Review, 1996
This article offers strategies for implementing a process approach to teaching written composition, emphasizing prewriting, writing, and rewriting. Discussion of three functions of writing, including expressive writing, transactional writing, and poetic writing, is included. Writing process principles are linked to gifted education principles to…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Inclusive Schools
Collins, Norma Decker; Cross, Tracy L. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1993
This article presents a three-stage writing process designed to enhance the writing skills of gifted students, increase their engagement in the subject matter, and provide a greater degree of understanding of the content area. The stages are referred to as prewriting, writing, and rewriting. (JDD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Prewriting, Revision (Written Composition)
Tierney, Robert J.; Pearson, P. David – 1983
Readers as well as writers compose meaning. Using the same characteristics essential to effective writing--planning, drafting, aligning, revising, and monitoring--readers react creatively with the text. In response to the author's intention and their own knowledge base, they decide what they want to get from their reading. Constantly renegotiating…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Language Processing, Prewriting
Cadenhead, Kenneth; And Others – 1984
Prewriting, writing, and revision represent vital elements in both the total writing experience and the evaluation of writing programs. An effective writing program should include (1) a written plan to guide composition instructors and ensure that students receive balanced instruction; (2) clearly stated purposes reflecting concern for composition…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education
Strickland, James – 1985
In the area of composition, computer assisted instruction (CAI) must move beyond the limited concerns of the current-traditional rhetoric to address the larger issues of writing, become process-centered, and involve active writing rather than answering multiple-choice questions. Researchers cite four major types of interactive CAI, the last of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Higher Education, Prewriting
Polloway, Edward A.; Decker, Thomas W. – 1988
Written language skills are an important goal within programs of language development for students with mental disabilities. Specific facets should be considered in the teaching of writing, such as drawing on previous linguistic experiences, viewing writing as both process and product, emphasizing writing as a form of communication, tying writing…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Skills, Mental Retardation, Prewriting
Bass, Bill; Brigman, Donna; Brooks, Gordon, Jr.; Edgar, Laurie; Melton, Mark; Rumbaugh, Will – 1999
This guide to the Georgia Middle Grades Writing Assessment (MGWA) serves the purpose of improving writing and writing instruction. It includes a description of test administration conditions, a sample test booklet, and a structured overview of the writing assessment. Prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading are explained in the…
Descriptors: Editing, Middle Schools, Prewriting, Proofreading
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Whittaker, Catharine R.; Salend, Spencer J. – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1991
This article describes a variety of collaborative writing strategies that teachers can use within the four subprocesses of writing (prewriting, drafting, revising, and publishing). The strategies include, among others, brainstorming, semantic maps, directed reading and writing, discussion tests, editing groups, and group efforts in layout and…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Activities
Kelly, Kathleen – 1982
Teachers' role as primary audience has important implications for writing instruction. Teachers represent a combination of two audiences: a literal audience--a specific person or group of people implied in a writing assignment--and an ideal audience shaped by the writers themselves. As these two general types of audiences imply, writers both…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Higher Education, Prewriting, Revision (Written Composition)
Fenton, Mary C. – 1983
The synthesis of four instructional models for argumentative writing--the Toulmin, Hiduke, Winder, and Crebbe-Debate approaches--with basic discourse theory produces a practical and positive method of teaching college students to write effective persuasive essays. A battery of questions based on a modified communication triangle--subject…
Descriptors: College English, Essays, Expository Writing, Higher Education
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