Revising & Editing

by Parsons, Les

• ISBN13: 9781551381305
• ISBN10: 1551381303
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Pembroke Pub Ltd
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Summary

Drawing on a wealth of models, checklists, and guidelines,Revising & Editingshows classroom teachers how to address the teaching of specific revising and editing skills to improve both fiction and nonfiction writing. Les Parsons explores the concept and the goal behind these two distinct practices through: activities that encourage students to rethink the writing process, from initial idea to final product; a toolkit of reproducible sheets that focus on a range of skills--from word choice, sentence, and paragraph structure to grammar, punctuation, and title treatment; tips for promoting collaborative learning through peer and student-teacher conferences and parental involvement; 8 series of student models that illustrate prose narratives, essays, poems, and projects, and how to use these models with students; a thorough discussion of the role of drafting in the computer age; practical suggestions for the assessment and evaluation of student writing; a glossary of terms for easy reference.

Table of Contents

Preface	5	(2)
Drafting in the Computer Age	7	(14)
The Impact of the Computer on Student Writing	7	(1)
You Say ``Editing''; I Say ``Revising''	8	(1)
A Revision Report Card	9	(1)
Diagnostic Survey on Class Revision Practices	9	(1)
The Culture of Editing	10	(2)
Teaching the Drafting Process	12	(3)
The Use of Writing Folders in the Drafting Process	15	(1)
Should Writing Be a Computer-Driven Process?	16	(1)
Revision and Risk Taking	17	(4)
The Perfect Page? A Checklist for Students	18	(3)
Collaboration and the Drafting Process	21	(12)
An Overview	21	(1)
Dial C for Assistance	22	(2)
Benefits of Peer-revision and Peer-editing Conferences	24	(1)
Teaching Peer-conference skills	24	(3)
Questions That Promote Peer-conference Skills	26	(1)
Parents as Collaborators	27	(5)
Peer-conference Skills Focus	28	(1)
Self-assessment of Peer-conference Performance	29	(1)
Revising and Editing with a Student Writer: Guidelines for Parents, Guardians, and Older Siblings	30	(2)
A Matter of Trust	32	(1)
Revision Checklists	33	(8)
Focus on Fundamentals	33	(8)
Paragraph Checklist for Students	35	(1)
Sentence Checklist for Students	36	(3)
Word Choice Checklist for Students	39	(2)
Peer-revision Models	41	(58)
Windows into Revision Conferences	41	(4)
Peer-conference Guidelines for the Student Author	43	(1)
Guidelines for Peer-revision Conferences	44	(1)
Revising a Prose Narrative 1 (Intermediate)	45	(5)
Revising a Prose Narrative 2 (Junior)	50	(4)
Revising an Essay 1 (Intermediate)	54	(8)
Student Guideline for Generating Essay Ideas	55	(1)
Student Guideline for Writing and Revising an Essay	56	(6)
Revising an Essay 2 (Junior/Intermediate)	62	(6)
Revising a Poem 1 (Intermediate)	68	(9)
Student Author Guideline on Preparing for a Poetry Peer-revision Conference	70	(1)
Student Guideline for a Peer-revision Partner in a Poetry Revision Conference	71	(6)
Revising a Poem 2 (Junior/Intermediate)	77	(6)
Revising a Prose Narrative into a Poem (Intermediate)	83	(7)
Revising a Project (Junior/Intermediate)	90	(9)
Student Guideline for Revising a Project	91	(8)
An Editing Toolkit	99	(20)
Self- and Peer-editing	99	(1)
Is It Grammar or Is It Usage?	100	(6)
Editing Symbols Checklist	101	(1)
Usage Do's and Don't's Checklist	102	(2)
To Capitalize or Not to Capitalize Checklist	104	(1)
Titles Checklist	105	(1)
Pursuing Clarity	106	(11)
Punctuation Guidelines, Part 1: Terminal Punctuation, Commas, Colons, Semicolons	107	(4)
Punctuation Guidelines, Part 2: Quotation Marks, Hyphens, Apostrophes	111	(3)
Checklist of Words Easily Confused	114	(1)
Checklist of Words Easily Confused That Are Homonyms	115	(2)
Duty or Donkey Work?	117	(2)
Final Words: Preparing and Presenting the Feast	119	(7)
Glossary	121	(4)
Summary of Reproducible Pages for Students	125	(1)
Index	126