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How to get my Students to Submit Quality Writing Assignments?

How to get my Students to Submit Quality Writing Assignments?. Selecting Writing Variables. Topic Audience Purpose Format Voice. Topic. Is the topic limited enough? Do I know enough about the topic? Should I brainstorm with others to learn more about the topic?. Audience.

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How to get my Students to Submit Quality Writing Assignments?

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  1. How to get my Students to Submit Quality Writing Assignments?

  2. Selecting Writing Variables • Topic • Audience • Purpose • Format • Voice

  3. Topic • Is the topic limited enough? • Do I know enough about the topic? • Should I brainstorm with others to learn more about the topic?

  4. Audience • Which real audience might I write to? (fellow student, friend, family member, etc) • Which imagined audience might I write to? (movie star, historical figure, character from novel, river) • How much does the audience know about the topic?

  5. Purpose • What is my purpose for writing for my specific audience? (to tell, to argue, to explain, to entertain) • How is my purpose going to narrow my topic?

  6. Format • Which format best fulfils my purpose? (descriptive paragraph, argumentative essay, poem, etc)

  7. Voice • Will I use my own voice as the narrator? • Will I choose to use a persona? (Shakespeare, endangered animal, pilgrim, polluted beach) • How will my audience appreciate my choice of voice?

  8. Writing Variables

  9. Writing Variables Activity • The five excerpts are from an assignment that was given to students during the first week of class. They all had to begin with the broad topic of Drugs/Alcohol. Determine the remaining writing variables (audience, purpose, format and voice) for each excerpt.

  10. Jigsaw Activity • Writing variables Across the Curriculum • Take a Walk to Brainstorm • Invisible Ink

  11. Peer Editing

  12. Peer Editing • Students often submit writing assignments that has not been edited by anyone, including themselves. • Many papers do not warrant the time and effort teachers put into them. • Students are accustomed to reading the same comments each time they turn in a writing assignment. • Sometimes students don’t understand the meaning of AWK, UNCLEAR, COMMA SPLICE, AGRRMENT PROBLEM or CONFUSING • A peer editing session can weed out many errors before papers reach the teachers’ eyes. • Peer editing is beneficial to both writer and editor.

  13. Circle Editing Exercise

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