Five Paragraphs: Unloved and Unnecessary, Susan Knoppow

Five Paragraphs: Unloved and Unnecessary, Susan Knoppow

Becoming a Writerly Self: College Writers Engaging Black Feminist Essays, Juanita Rodgers Comfort

Becoming a Writerly Self: College Writers Engaging Black Feminist Essays, Juanita Rodgers Comfort

This article asserts that personal essays by black feminist writers such as June Jordan might be used to teach first-year and advanced student writers how to connect their personal and social identities in ways that will enhance the rhetorical impact of their writing while transcending mere “confession” or self-indulgence.

Get a Life, PhD: Writing a Literature Review: Six Steps to Get You from Start to Finish

Get a Life, PhD: Writing a Literature Review: Six Steps to Get You from Start to Finish

Instead of Sobbing, You Write Sentences: An Interview with Charles D’Ambrosio

Instead of Sobbing, You Write Sentences: An Interview with Charles D’Ambrosio

I Cannot Prepare Students to Write Their (History, Philosophy, Sociology, Poly Sci., etc…) Papers, John Warner

I Cannot Prepare Students to Write Their (History, Philosophy, Sociology, Poly Sci., etc…) Papers, John Warner

Skills and Strategies | Understanding Plagiarism in a Digital Age – NYTimes.com

Skills and Strategies | Understanding Plagiarism in a Digital Age – NYTimes.com

How I Teach My English-Language Learners to Love Writing

How I Teach My English-Language Learners to Love Writing

By Mary Ann Zehr

When I started a new career as a high school English-as-a-second-language teacher in 2011, I figured I was better equipped than many teachers to help students learn to write. I had been a journalist for 14 years for Education Week, and for most of that time I had specialized in writing about English-language learners. Four years later, I’m still in a trial-and-error stage in finding the most effective ways to teach adolescent ELLs to write. But I have had some success.

Most of my students have made good progress in English on the standardized test, ACCESS for ELLs, developed by WIDA, a consortium in Madison, Wis., and used by about half the states plus the District of Columbia to measure ELLs’ annual progress in English.

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Grading: Ego, Control, and Varieties of Authority, John Warner

Grading: Ego, Control, and Varieties of Authority, John Warner

Time Spent Writing, Dana Murphy

Time Spent Writing, Dana Murphy

Sequencing and Scaffolding Assignments (University of Michigan)

Sequencing and Scaffolding Assignments (University of Michigan)