Writing to Teach; Writing to Learn in Secondary Schools

by Leist, Susan M.; Marchewka-Cornwell, Pamila

• ISBN13: 9780761835226
• ISBN10: 0761835229
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-18
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Writing to Teach; Writing to Learn in Secondary Schools is a comprehensive guide for high school teachers who want to use writing as a teaching tool in any discipline. This user-friendly and hands-on book provides instructional materials for generating and structuring writing, guidance for developing writing assignments and for evaluating writing, and sample syllabi and assignments.

Author Biography

Pamila Marchewka-Cornwell is a high school English teacher in New York State.

Table of Contents

The writing process	p. 1
Techniques for using writing to teach	p. 7
Generative heuristics	p. 24
Structural heuristics	p. 41
Student research	p. 71
Evaluating student writing	p. 78
Syllabi for writing intensive courses	p. 87
Some examples of writing assignments	p. 101
Forms and checklists	p. 107
The domain scoring rubric	p. 119
Directions for generally used writing tasks	p. 122
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